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A review by stressejesse
Troublemakers by Catherine Barter
5.0
All 371 pages of this creation were an absolute gift.
People tend to say "I couldn't put it down" so much that I think it's been diluted. Just a shorthand way of saying you loved it. But I literally couldn't put this book down. I told myself "just one more chapter", "oh I'll just read til the next part", "the next chapter that has a mini time-skip is where I'll stop". I devoured it in a night.
I don't think there was a chapter (or a page) in this book I didn't cry (read: sob) at, not just because parts of it are sad, but because of how much it got to me. This book is gorgeous to read.
I had to take crying-breaks so I could get the tears out of my vision so I could see the page without it being blurry. This book broke me and I'm only ever going to say thank you. I felt So Much reading this.
Also how am I simultaneously every single character in this book? It's like this book is a direct tether to my soul.
I picked this up knowing nothing about it except that it was on some YA rec list someone had made. I wasn't expecting to like it all that much, and I was initially going to read something else tonight, but I decided at the last minute to turn to this instead. It had been sitting on my bookshelf for a few months, me being completely unaware of how much of a favourite it would become.
Also, I want to write like this. I got 20 pages in and immediately recognised my "yeah, this is the kind of style I like. I want to write like this" feeling of inspiration and reverence of knowing so early on that someone will mean a lot to me.
As a formal apology to every other book I've read in the last almost 22 years, you've been dethroned. Mercilessly.
Holy shit.
People tend to say "I couldn't put it down" so much that I think it's been diluted. Just a shorthand way of saying you loved it. But I literally couldn't put this book down. I told myself "just one more chapter", "oh I'll just read til the next part", "the next chapter that has a mini time-skip is where I'll stop". I devoured it in a night.
I don't think there was a chapter (or a page) in this book I didn't cry (read: sob) at, not just because parts of it are sad, but because of how much it got to me. This book is gorgeous to read.
I had to take crying-breaks so I could get the tears out of my vision so I could see the page without it being blurry. This book broke me and I'm only ever going to say thank you. I felt So Much reading this.
Also how am I simultaneously every single character in this book? It's like this book is a direct tether to my soul.
I picked this up knowing nothing about it except that it was on some YA rec list someone had made. I wasn't expecting to like it all that much, and I was initially going to read something else tonight, but I decided at the last minute to turn to this instead. It had been sitting on my bookshelf for a few months, me being completely unaware of how much of a favourite it would become.
Also, I want to write like this. I got 20 pages in and immediately recognised my "yeah, this is the kind of style I like. I want to write like this" feeling of inspiration and reverence of knowing so early on that someone will mean a lot to me.
As a formal apology to every other book I've read in the last almost 22 years, you've been dethroned. Mercilessly.
Holy shit.