A review by frenchtoast_n_books
I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver

emotional hopeful informative 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

4.5

I loved so many things about this book: the plot, the main characters, the message, the fact that therapy and love doesn't easily/quickly solve mental health issues and that it is messy, that it shows how messy emotions are, and that it helps those unfamiliar with non-binary people understand what it feels like to be non-binary without spoon-feeding the reader definitions. It allows for further exploration and discovery on the readers time if they choose to do so.

I can't say there was really anything wrong with this book or that there is anything I'd correct... except, maybe, making the side characters a little more rounded. I understand that Ben, our main character, might not focus on these side characters while he is trapped in his own thoughts and wound up in other things. However, I really wanted to read more about Ben's other school friends and read more about their interactions with each other to see their friendship grow to where it is at by the story's end.
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