This is the kind of lit fiction/slice of life story that I am all about. Joy resonated the most with me at the beginning to the point where I had automatically pictured her as Asian, like me, in my head. Once she started falling harder and harder for Theo, it honestly made me sad. I started liking Annie more and more toward the end, especially when she would try to hit Joy with the tough love about Theo. At first I kind of held her in a neutral view, just someone stuck with a shitty boyfriend, but she absolutely grew on me.

My favorite part of the book was probably Annie's birthday dinner with Joy when the two women ripped into each other about their respective love lives. The love between Joy and Annie felt real and was the most stable relationship throughout the book. 

I do also like that we got Celine's perspective as well after she was introduced so that she wasn't just some other randomly floating figurehead in someone else's story. Celine's perspective was interesting because there were portions to which I could relate and then portions where I absolutely could not. I did absolutely understand how she felt about who she was when she was alone and needing that external validation that comes from others. I also liked the dichotomy between Celine and Joy's views of Theo because we saw him up on a pedestal with Joy and then essentially the same as any other useless man with Celine.