Review by deathdayparty - In Limbo

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

⭐️5
📚Reminds me of This One Summer or Bloom.
🛍️ ARC from NetGalley

Pros:

There are a lot of coming of age stories that gloss over how messy and painful growing out of interests and friends can be. This story does such a beautiful job of both.
In the Fifth Act having both Deb and Kate acknowledge and multiple things can be hard to cope with and sometimes you're just a shitty friend is very sweet.
The language through line is really beautiful especially introducing another character that is learning a language as more of a hobby than a sense of self.
This is a book a wish I had in the transition from middle-high school and into school. Lee does such a wonderful job describing all of these stages of life.

Cons:

Other:

I actually learned that the term Bildungsroman means a novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a usually youthful main character.
I will absolutely be buying this book as a physical copy to add to my shelf of First Second books and for my niece and nephew.

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