A review by readasaurus_rex
The Beautiful Maddening by Shea Ernshaw

3.0

Added a star because I am not a teenager or young adult so recognize I am not the audience for a book like this anymore and therefore my experience of the book as overwrought and wildly unrealistic (and stupid) is likely heavily biased and unfair. It’s been a couple decades since I was raging with intense teenage hormones, and the further I get from that experience the less patience I have for YA tropes and the idea that anyone knows what true love is (or how long life is) at 18.  Anyway I loved Ernshaw’s earlier books but this was a little too purple for me.