kaelaceleste 's review for:

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

4.0

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this was soooo cute! The characters felt flawed and realistic and like actual normal college kids. This book actually made me nostalgic for a college life that I very much did not have so I guess it did the trick. I absolutely loved the diversity of queer representation in this and of course the two main characters who were aroace. I really liked that there were TWO ace main characters and that they didn't experience their sexuality in the same way, and that they were able to show multiple perspectives of similar identities. The plot was so silly and at times definitely a bit on the unrealistic side of things but I'll let it slide because I had a lot of fun with it. This is the kind of book that I think is going to be really meaningful and special to young adults and feeling represented and I'm just very glad it exists!

Also: I started out listening to the audiobook but switched to the ebook a little ways in because I wasn't a huge fan of how the text message/IG stories parts of the book were narrated - I found it a bit hard to follow. But reading it on the ebook definitely fixed that, I liked reading the stylized punctuation and emojis and things lol