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If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann
4.0

✔️thematically dark read
✔️ diversity

Wow. Damn. I did it!!

So a lot of my childhood was echoed in this novel. A lot of triggering subjects and scenes which were executed expertly. Claire Kann respects teens emotional reactions and validates their choices through sound character logic and that teen spirit that crushes adult indifference. The characters had fantastic relationships with each other. Also fuck yes polyamory.

I had some problems with the descriptions and some imagery. They were sometimes drawn out with distracted me from scenes.

Cute small town novel. This one makes me wanna pick up more books with this setting, but I know I'll be disappointed because Winnie won't be there calling out all that dumbass social conditioning