3.81 AVERAGE

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced
emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book is so wholesome and sweet. Charlie was so relatable, especially all of his teenage social anxiety. 
adventurous emotional relaxing 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
adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes

This was so cute. I agree with Charlie that the red theme for the uniforms really goes all out and over the top. But still, Charlie is so afraid to make friends but starts to make them by accident and realizes that they support him and like him for who he is. He thought only Delilah was in his corner but that wasn’t the case. Plus, I would also have been justifiably annoyed with my roommate having a full size cardboard cutout of themselves in the room. Ridiculous.
adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

I enjoyed the latter half way more than the first, but I still think there could have been a better approach with the pacing. Cute man sila jud, but makalagot ang first half ky very tell not show and pet peeve jd nako na siya sa libro mabwesit jd ko. I enjoyed this more kay at least nag isturya ang mga tawo and dili lang jd mga stand in ang mga friends/side characters nila, albeit I would have enjoyed more involvement nila. Very tropey and very "current" ang language na gigamit and idk if I like that or not but mu-date jd siya sa work but eh, g lang man pd.

Gors na guro ra kaayo ko for this pero enjoyable ra sd within the YA contemporary romance genre. Very cute, pero mas ma enjoy guro nako ni katong baby gay pa ko lol.
emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

 Okay, so I'm kinda stuck between a 2- and a 3-star rating. Like, 2.5 feels about right.

This was a cute and fun YA read that had potential. This had me in the first half. It just didn't quite hit for me in the second half. I couldn't get invested in the romance in the second half, which I felt like was a bit underdeveloped. But I did enjoy the boarding school vibe.

So, while I'm not exactly disappointed, I'm also not satisfied. It's... fine? It's okay, but not exactly. Idk. Still, if you're looking for a quick, light YA read, this is worth picking up.