mmilla 's review for:

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

4.0

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I was so disappointed with the second book it took me months after this was published before I bothered with it, and even then I needed to read a bunch of review to assure myself that I wasn't going to let my heart into wrong hands again.

Well, it was worth it. Simon and Baz are together and they're happy and nothing will bother them. The beginning of the book is slow, split into three different plots, and I'm gonna dock one start for the Penny plot (I love Penny but I just did not like Sheppard even though he was mean to be the most lovable of them all). I was confused about Agatha's plot but it turned out to be super lovely, and I believe she's genuinely going to the happiest of them all (I want her life!).

Simon and Baz parts I inhaled - they were just lovely. I love Simon's progression of "oh this is hard" to "it's hard but I'm gonna do it" - felt real. What I didn't like so much was

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his naiveté of how sex with a man works... He'd already had sex with Agatha, and let me tell you when a horny teenager wants to have sex they will find a way! I'm all for taking it slow but I wish there had been a nice reward for the reader in the end. They should have gotten there.

I actually teared up in the end - found families are great, but this had already fallen apart,

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so Simon actually finding his real family was truly amazing, and I loved Lady Ruth.

It was a good ending to a very uneven series.