lara_bookish_turtle 's review for:

5.0

I AM BASICALLY SCREAMING AS I WRITE THIS REVIEW AND ALSO I AM DEAD INSIDE BECAUSE THIS BOOK KILLED ME, BUT THAT'S FINE... These things happen I guess...

I just want to put in that I had to take my glasses off to read this, because the tears make them foggy and salty and then I can't keep reading. One of the ultimate struggles of having glasses. I'm so thankful that I don't need them for for reading, otherwise I don't even know how it would have been physically possible for me to read this masterpiece of a novel.

Also, did I mention that this book has left me dead inside?!

Beck is so precious and he deserves so much better and basically every single time he thought a single thought it made me want to cry, so there's that...

And August is such a precious cinnamon roll and I love her and I am so grateful that she is a character that was written and she didn't fall into any of the tropes that I was so scared she would.

Joey is such a perfect sweetie and she deserves more in life.

August's family is so soft and sweet and I needed more of them!

Can I just mention, the third person present tense is my favourite type of book and they're basically nonexistent so I LOVED that!

Also, I really like short books, so I liked that it was short. BUT I ALSO HATE IT BECAUSE I NEEDED MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't write any more because I am dead inside.


Just kidding!!! Here's a spoiler tag with all my thoughts on the ending:
Spoiler I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT BECK LEFT AUGUST BUT I'M ALSO SO HAPPY FOR HIM AND JOEY THAT THEY ESCAPED BUT I AM JUST GENERALLY A BUCKET OF MUSH AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF ANYMORE?!?!

WHERE IS MY SEQUEL WHERE BECK BECOMES A FAMOUS COMPOSER AND AUGUST MOVES TO GERMANY AND THEY END UP TOGETHER AND JOEY BECOMES A CHEF AND THEY ALL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER?!?! PLEASE WRITE THIS BECAUSE I NEED IT IN MY LIFE. THANK-YOU!

I shelved this on my abominable endings shelf, even though I was quite happy with the ending (other than the fact that it killed me) because the ending itself wasn't bad, it just wasn't fair that it had an ending! Why couldn't it go on forever this isn't fair!!!!!

(But seriously though, where is my sequel?!)