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This book is a brother-brother love triangle but it just felt like a bad version of "The Summer I Turned Pretty".
This book was easy to read and the journal-esque formula was a unique format that worked well for this story. This saved it from being a 1 star ranking because the characters are terrible. Every single one of them. Especially Molly. She is selfish, and has no redeeming qualities to her. I did have sympathy for her at the start of the book after what felt like the entire town solely blamed her past mistakes. However, that quickly went away when she continued to make bad decision after bad decision with little to no regrets. Characters should evolve through the book and I feel like that was lacking here. She was the same shitty person she was the year before.
The bullying and double standard from the majority of characters also did not sit well with me and none of them seemed to have learned from their mistakes either. Julia and company were the same terrible people they were from the start. The brothers were also bad characters. Every good love triangle book forces readers into 'teams', I wasn't rooting for either one of them which I think is a huge red flag.
This book had so much unexplored potential from her relationship with her mother, to Julia dealing with her secret sexual identity. I hope the sequel taps into that potential. Although from the summery it sounds like Molly is back to making poor, selfish decisions.
This book was easy to read and the journal-esque formula was a unique format that worked well for this story. This saved it from being a 1 star ranking because the characters are terrible. Every single one of them. Especially Molly. She is selfish, and has no redeeming qualities to her. I did have sympathy for her at the start of the book after what felt like the entire town solely blamed her past mistakes. However, that quickly went away when she continued to make bad decision after bad decision with little to no regrets. Characters should evolve through the book and I feel like that was lacking here. She was the same shitty person she was the year before.
The bullying and double standard from the majority of characters also did not sit well with me and none of them seemed to have learned from their mistakes either. Julia and company were the same terrible people they were from the start. The brothers were also bad characters. Every good love triangle book forces readers into 'teams', I wasn't rooting for either one of them which I think is a huge red flag.
This book had so much unexplored potential from her relationship with her mother, to Julia dealing with her secret sexual identity. I hope the sequel taps into that potential. Although from the summery it sounds like Molly is back to making poor, selfish decisions.