• Finished reading on January 06, 2022 around 6:15PM
  • Read in spread apart chunks and then lowkey binged at the end
• Review published on August 12, 2022

Premise 🌟**:**

Georgia has never had a crush on anyone, much less been in a relationship (she’s “loveless” 🤪), which is something she’s determined to change going into her first year at university. After her romantic endeavors fail and she kind of ruins her friendships 😳, she starts to wonder if maybe she was looking for the wrong thing and that love was right in front of her all along. 💜

Overall rating: 4/5 💜 💜 💜 💜

I felt kind of empty when I finished this book… it left me with a vaguely dissatisfied impression, but at the same time, there were also so many elements that I enjoyed and resonated with! The overall emphasis on platonic friendship was really sweet, and the nuanced conversations about the divides and bigotry within the LGBT community mostly made up for the main character’s self-centeredness and obliviousness towards her white privilege. 🙄 I think I would have enjoyed the book a lot more if I actually liked Georgia, but because I wasn’t really rooting for her towards the end, the resolution felt a little undeserved to me 🤷🏻‍♀️. Anygay, I read this book right after finishing my first quarter at uni, so a lot of things about it felt very personal and hit close to home at the time, and I liked the book overall. 💗

☕ Thoughts

• Things I liked ✅

• Things I disliked ❌

Who I would recommend this book for:

• People who feel lonely 🥀
• ☎️ Students going through a big transition in their lives! (i.e. moving and/or starting university)
• People who want to cherish their friends and non-romantic relationships 🤗
• People looking for romance and relationships 💌
• 🌈 People questioning their sexualities
• People who are trying to figure out their sense of identity and belonging 🥰
• 💜 People looking for happy queer rep that doesn’t heavily focus on romance!
• Theater kids 🎭

FAVORITE QUOTES 💬

This is so important!! People are not immature for not having or wanting romantic/sexual experiences.

“I think it’s pretty amazing that you haven’t felt peer-pressured into doing anything by now. You haven’t made yourself do anything you didn’t want to do. You haven’t kissed anyone just because you’re scared of missing out. I think that’s one of the most mature things I’ve ever heard, actually.”

💗💗💗

“It took her some time to feel happy with herself but... She’s happy with who she is. Maybe it’s not the heteronormative dream that she grew up wishing for, but... knowing who you are and loving yourself is so much better than that, I think.”