A review by juushika
The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton

5.0

The new girl at an elite boarding school falls in with the campus choir, an insular group wrapped around its untouchable, charismatic female lead. This is another "perfect, no, probably not; but so much my catnip that I don't care" book; like Social Creature seen slantwise, action toned down, feelings turned up, with the same toxic female friendships verging unsubtly into queer longing; and I did roll around in the hot mess of it, intoxicated and overjoyed. A book about wishing for transcendence; about toxic friendships, the near-pleasurable misery of unrequited queer attraction; melodramatic, funny, painfully self-aware, but more emotional than frenetic. I'm here for all of it; this is definite reread material.