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A review by seventhaurora
Gena/Finn by Hannah Moskowitz, Kat Helgeson
3.0
is this how straight people felt after reading the fault in our stars?
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ok so this review is more a warning than anything. it does contain minor spoilers but i think that if you're a wlw, you should read it anyway. you might thank me later.
so! this book was really hard for me to rate bc on the one hand, this book started out really cute and it made me so happy and i couldn't stop smiling and i had to put it down several times bc i just couldn't at the cuteness and relatable-ness. but on the other hand...i was really really really hoping that it would end happily - or at least not devastatingly - and i can't say that it did.
i don't want to spoil anything but i'll just say this: if you're a wlw, approach this book with caution. it's really well-written, and at a lot of points, i felt as though the authors somehow had access to my own personal thoughts, feelings and experiences - it was so much like my life, it was surreal. i really don't know how they did it. however. i did go into this book thinking that it would be a fun, easy, lighthearted read (and i did have a sneaking suspicion that it might include something not-quite-straight, which made me want to read it even more), but that was certainly not the case.
i don't think i've ever cried at a book as much as i cried reading gena/finn. it was just so...real. and i spent the entire time hoping and praying that the girls would get their happy ending...
they didn't. not really. and it sucks.
it sucks bc i let myself get my hopes up. i stupidly thought that maybe this time would be different - that maybe i would come away from this book feeling light and warm and happy.
it wasn't. i didn't.
i lost count of the number of times i had to physically put the book down bc i couldn't stop crying. i couldn't stop crying bc of how real it was, bc of how relatable it was, bc i knew - i knew - deep down that they weren't going to get their happily ever after. bc wlw, it seems, never do.
that being said, it was a good book. i loved the format, and i've certainly never read anything like it. i certainly would have preferred it if the fandom had been for a wlw couple bc that would have been more realistic imo, but it was relatable all the same.
tl;dr read this book if you're a wlw who enjoys suffering and watching people like them never get their happy endings.
(i didn't proofread this so there are probably a million mistakes but give me a break, i've been through a lot in the past 24 hours (read: 6 months).)
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ok so this review is more a warning than anything. it does contain minor spoilers but i think that if you're a wlw, you should read it anyway. you might thank me later.
so! this book was really hard for me to rate bc on the one hand, this book started out really cute and it made me so happy and i couldn't stop smiling and i had to put it down several times bc i just couldn't at the cuteness and relatable-ness. but on the other hand...i was really really really hoping that it would end happily - or at least not devastatingly - and i can't say that it did.
i don't want to spoil anything but i'll just say this: if you're a wlw, approach this book with caution. it's really well-written, and at a lot of points, i felt as though the authors somehow had access to my own personal thoughts, feelings and experiences - it was so much like my life, it was surreal. i really don't know how they did it. however. i did go into this book thinking that it would be a fun, easy, lighthearted read (and i did have a sneaking suspicion that it might include something not-quite-straight, which made me want to read it even more), but that was certainly not the case.
i don't think i've ever cried at a book as much as i cried reading gena/finn. it was just so...real. and i spent the entire time hoping and praying that the girls would get their happy ending...
they didn't. not really. and it sucks.
it sucks bc i let myself get my hopes up. i stupidly thought that maybe this time would be different - that maybe i would come away from this book feeling light and warm and happy.
it wasn't. i didn't.
i lost count of the number of times i had to physically put the book down bc i couldn't stop crying. i couldn't stop crying bc of how real it was, bc of how relatable it was, bc i knew - i knew - deep down that they weren't going to get their happily ever after. bc wlw, it seems, never do.
that being said, it was a good book. i loved the format, and i've certainly never read anything like it. i certainly would have preferred it if the fandom had been for a wlw couple bc that would have been more realistic imo, but it was relatable all the same.
tl;dr read this book if you're a wlw who enjoys suffering and watching people like them never get their happy endings.
(i didn't proofread this so there are probably a million mistakes but give me a break, i've been through a lot in the past 24 hours (read: 6 months).)