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4.23 AVERAGE
4.23 AVERAGE
THIS IS THE BEST EMMA MILLS BOOK.
How did I wait so long to read it??? How was it so good???? How can I pull the high school experience of the protagonist out of this book and live it for myself, despite it being fictional and me being in my twenties?????
My ability to work out such questions is even more ineffective than usual, because I have DIED of CUTENESS. I have only recently been resurrected from DEATH ITSELF, because this book is so overwhelmingly ADORABLE it MURDERED me in COLD BLOOD.
Sporadic CAPS for EFFECT.
You can tell just from the number of shelves this is on that it's got the Me Endorsement. Let's do a list of them, for proof (and flair).
- 4-and-a-half stars:
That's a high-ass rating, boi!
- auto-buy-authors
Emma Mills made it to this list because her contemporaries are mediocre-to-good and the covers are beaut as hell. GUESS WHAT. This is my least favorite of her covers but the word mediocre belongs nowhere near this book I'll tell you that much!
- best-contemporaries
Yeah. I said it. It’s going on the most coveted shelf of all. (Just kidding favorites would be that, or at the very least favorites-2018, but please let’s not be ridiculous and just be grateful for what we have.)
- couldnt-wait-to-read
Honestly this shelf and its brethren, cant-wait-to-read, are lies. There is not a book on Earth I can’t wait to read, because this book came out a million years ago and has been on my TBR since pre-release and look how long it took me. BUT STILL. It conveys an excitement.
- funny
BOOKS ARE ALMOST NEVER FUNNY. Do people ever laugh at books?? I don’t. Except this time! Fooled you. This book is very hilarious.
- i-love-these-characters
This is...actually perhaps the highest praise I can offer any book. I Never love YA characters. They are always boring and interchangeable. Except, guess what, AGAIN NOT THIS TIME. This book: defying all expectations I set up for you in literally the previous sentence.
- recommend
Obviously.
THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD. The friendships are amazingly well-done. The family relationships (okay maybe not parents but definitely siblings) are fantastic. Gideon, the love interest, is the crown prince of my heart and my new favorite YA guy of all time, or at least this moment before I forget. Like, a boy with...charm? A personality? A sense of humor? In my YA? It’s more likely than you think.
I would say “book boyfriend,” if I didn’t hate that term and find it unbearably cringey/cheesy/embarrassing.
But I do, so.
Also there’s a FF relationship between two supporting characters (one of whom is indicated to be bi) and it’s just the sh*t. It does seem like Emma Mills may keep on writing hetero-ass romances for all times, but I’ll be more okay with that if she keeps giving me this fantastic adorable LGBT+ rep along the way.
The relationship development and the character development and the friendship development...it’s all just. <3.
The fact that I am losing the ability to use words and am instead using vintage-style pre-emoji emoticons is not a good sign. Time to wrap it up. EVEN THOUGH I COULD GUSH ABOUT THIS BOOK FOR A THOUSAND MILLION YEARS.
Bottom line: YESYESYESYESYESYES YESSSSSS!
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pre-review
THIS IS THE BEST EMMA MILLS BOOK!!!
HOW DID I WAIT SO LONG TO READ IT!!!!
REVIEW TO COME, ONCE MY ENTHUSIASM LEVELS DIP JUST ENOUGH THAT I CAN TAP THAT CAPS LOCK KEY AGAIN AND STOP SCREAMING AT YOU ALL!!!!!!!!
How did I wait so long to read it??? How was it so good???? How can I pull the high school experience of the protagonist out of this book and live it for myself, despite it being fictional and me being in my twenties?????
My ability to work out such questions is even more ineffective than usual, because I have DIED of CUTENESS. I have only recently been resurrected from DEATH ITSELF, because this book is so overwhelmingly ADORABLE it MURDERED me in COLD BLOOD.
Sporadic CAPS for EFFECT.
You can tell just from the number of shelves this is on that it's got the Me Endorsement. Let's do a list of them, for proof (and flair).
- 4-and-a-half stars:
That's a high-ass rating, boi!
- auto-buy-authors
Emma Mills made it to this list because her contemporaries are mediocre-to-good and the covers are beaut as hell. GUESS WHAT. This is my least favorite of her covers but the word mediocre belongs nowhere near this book I'll tell you that much!
- best-contemporaries
Yeah. I said it. It’s going on the most coveted shelf of all. (Just kidding favorites would be that, or at the very least favorites-2018, but please let’s not be ridiculous and just be grateful for what we have.)
- couldnt-wait-to-read
Honestly this shelf and its brethren, cant-wait-to-read, are lies. There is not a book on Earth I can’t wait to read, because this book came out a million years ago and has been on my TBR since pre-release and look how long it took me. BUT STILL. It conveys an excitement.
- funny
BOOKS ARE ALMOST NEVER FUNNY. Do people ever laugh at books?? I don’t. Except this time! Fooled you. This book is very hilarious.
- i-love-these-characters
This is...actually perhaps the highest praise I can offer any book. I Never love YA characters. They are always boring and interchangeable. Except, guess what, AGAIN NOT THIS TIME. This book: defying all expectations I set up for you in literally the previous sentence.
- recommend
Obviously.
THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD. The friendships are amazingly well-done. The family relationships (okay maybe not parents but definitely siblings) are fantastic. Gideon, the love interest, is the crown prince of my heart and my new favorite YA guy of all time, or at least this moment before I forget. Like, a boy with...charm? A personality? A sense of humor? In my YA? It’s more likely than you think.
I would say “book boyfriend,” if I didn’t hate that term and find it unbearably cringey/cheesy/embarrassing.
But I do, so.
Also there’s a FF relationship between two supporting characters (one of whom is indicated to be bi) and it’s just the sh*t. It does seem like Emma Mills may keep on writing hetero-ass romances for all times, but I’ll be more okay with that if she keeps giving me this fantastic adorable LGBT+ rep along the way.
The relationship development and the character development and the friendship development...it’s all just. <3.
The fact that I am losing the ability to use words and am instead using vintage-style pre-emoji emoticons is not a good sign. Time to wrap it up. EVEN THOUGH I COULD GUSH ABOUT THIS BOOK FOR A THOUSAND MILLION YEARS.
Bottom line: YESYESYESYESYESYES YESSSSSS!
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pre-review
THIS IS THE BEST EMMA MILLS BOOK!!!
HOW DID I WAIT SO LONG TO READ IT!!!!
REVIEW TO COME, ONCE MY ENTHUSIASM LEVELS DIP JUST ENOUGH THAT I CAN TAP THAT CAPS LOCK KEY AGAIN AND STOP SCREAMING AT YOU ALL!!!!!!!!
4.5/5 stars
I THINK THIS IS MY FAVORITE EMMA MILLS BOOK? IDK. She has become an auto-buy author for me because she is so great at writing great characters and witty dialogue.
When Claudia accidentally overhears the breakup of the power couple of their all-girls school and is found out by Iris, the meanest girl she knows, she's pretty sure her school life as she knows it is going to end. BUT she ends up becoming friends with Iris who is the definition of a porcupine but once she opens up is one of the sweetest people and also really into fandom which i loved.
Gideon was another story. He's the kind of person that everyone loves a little bit, no matter who they are. I loved how slow the relationship was to start because both of them were so unsure, and I just really loved them together.
THIS BOOK WAS GR8 OKAY?
I THINK THIS IS MY FAVORITE EMMA MILLS BOOK? IDK. She has become an auto-buy author for me because she is so great at writing great characters and witty dialogue.
When Claudia accidentally overhears the breakup of the power couple of their all-girls school and is found out by Iris, the meanest girl she knows, she's pretty sure her school life as she knows it is going to end. BUT she ends up becoming friends with Iris who is the definition of a porcupine but once she opens up is one of the sweetest people and also really into fandom which i loved.
Gideon was another story. He's the kind of person that everyone loves a little bit, no matter who they are. I loved how slow the relationship was to start because both of them were so unsure, and I just really loved them together.
THIS BOOK WAS GR8 OKAY?
3.75
finished this last night but i didnt update because i was supposed to buddy read with sam but she's not even halfway done so anyways i love this book its so cute i needed a break from depressing shit. claudia and gideon got me all soft and i love love love the friendships between the characters. my favorite character is probably iris she's an icon
finished this last night but i didnt update because i was supposed to buddy read with sam but she's not even halfway done so anyways i love this book its so cute i needed a break from depressing shit. claudia and gideon got me all soft and i love love love the friendships between the characters. my favorite character is probably iris she's an icon
I seriously don't know how Emma Mills does it. I'm always so obsessed with her books and I always have really high expectations. She somehow blows me away every time. I loved Foolish Hearts. It made me feel so much. The characters were all so wonderful in their own way. I loved their flaws and their strengths. The relationships all felt very organic and not forced or fake. Just amazing!
Cute! Laugh out loud funny at multiple points. Very character driven. I completely get Claudia's fear and feelings about relationships, and the worth it vs not worth it system of evaluating interactions.
i genuinely can’t for the life of me remember the last time i so thoroughly enjoyed a YA contemporary … be right back, trying to reassemble the pieces of my heart that went missing somewhere in the depths of this book.
I'm still obsessed with Emma Mills! Every single book of hers is just perfection. I do not care about the plots but I absolutely fall in love with every character and want to give them all a hug and just have the biggest book hangover when I'm done!!
I didn't think I'd like this book, but ended up finishing it in one sitting. It was cute, and sweet, and funny. There were a few things I didn't love, such as people refusing to actually say what they meant, but it wasn't any different than your average TV show. I also really liked that certain things that I thought were going to go one way ended up going somewhere else.
I think this is my favorite Emma Mills book. I loved it SO much, the friendships, Gideon the space prince, Iris and Claudia bonding over the band that gave me 1D feels, just. All of it. It was super wonderful and relatable and sweet.
Reread: December 29, 2018. I listened to One Direction, my TION, while reading and it heightened the experience exponentially. Also I love Gideon so, so much. This book makes me want to hug it to my chest, I love it so.