medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I overall really enjoyed the book and completely understand the fear of not meeting your parents expectations and falling off your “path” of things. I feel like the characters diversity could have been built out a little more, you know there’s a lot of queer characters but don’t know many details about them.

I understand why grace thought it would be a good idea to just turn off her phone to focus on making sure she gets better, but it was so selfish of her. Agnes just found out she was diagnosed with BPD and wanted support. Yuki went from having her loving wife at home for once she got off work, but one day the wife is gone and can’t get ahold of her. And grace expected everyone to just immediately be supportive of her again when she wasn’t there for anyone for the past few months.

I fell in love with this book from the very first chapter. The representation , the mental health struggles, the characters and their personalities just were so so good and relatable. I have nothing bad to say about this book everyone needs to read it.
emotional hopeful lighthearted sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

drink every time Grace is called “Grace Porter” or some variation of _____ Girl (Star Girl, Space Girl, Honey Girl, Dear Girl). drink every time the author mentions the universe, the stars, the galaxy, the cosmos.
emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional medium-paced

I really really wanted to like this book. I had heard so many good things about it and it was listed as one of the most anticipated books of the year. Lesbian astronomer PhD grad meets cool New York girl in Las Vegas and wakes up married. It has all of the makings for a fun read that I'd finish in a weekend with a silly smile on my face. This took me four months to finish. I think I had to renew my library loan three times before I finally forced myself to finish within a day of my loan expiring a fourth time. While it had all of the ingredients to make a great book and was well written the story and characters just felt flat. The stakes in the plot where too low to hook me and the chemistry between the two leads felt too forced to make me care. I do think the writer has a huge amount of talent and potential and I'm curious to see what she writes next. This was her first book and I have a feeling that her second book is going to be stronger as she finds her groove as a writer.

This is a book that I’m convinced generated hype because for some reason the publishers decided to push it and put a lot of money behind it. The reason for this is because it’s about a black, queer women. The marketing is confusing because it’s billed as YA and a romance, of which it’s neither. The protagonist is 28 and the book is about self-discovery/coming of age not romance. I think the book just didn’t know what it wanted to be and I didn’t connect to anyone in the book. I’m sure there’s plenty of people who will like, mainly contemporary lovers but it wasn’t for me.
emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes