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This book is difficult to review because it had a lot of potential but it was just.... bad. First and foremost, I think this book would have been so much more enjoyable to an actual teenager, so I might have liked this better when I was in high school. But then again, I think even a teenager would find the writing style problematic and sort of unrealistic for how teenagers talk, so it's difficult to recommend. This book is told entirely through text messages. I think this could have been an interesting and fast-paced format, but it just flopped in multiple ways. The characters very quickly got on their high horse and bonded about how they nEvEr use emojis or gifs because the main character said something pretentious about communicating with words rather than pictures. This was the beginning of a string of personality traits the main character had that made me SO annoyed with her. She's the type of "nerdy" girl who has a bunch of niche knowledge and always inserts it into the convo just to flex on whoever she's talking to. It was so weird and awkward, and if it was me texting her, I would have ghosted her because she's so uncomfortable to hold a conversation with. And that's my lasting impression of this book is that texts should be fun and low stakes and easy to read, but this book was painful and almost... boring? Also, this book just deals with so much unnecessary drama. The main character's friend group is the WORST and every day she reports back what girl is mad at who and what girl is dating who and why she's annoyed at them and it just felt like such childish drama that was also SUPER confusing because we never actually get to see them outside what the main character explains. In general, I wish this book would have focused more on developing a relationship between the two characters rather than them just coming to rant to one another about their lives because it was written really confusing since we only had the POV of texts. I would love to read another book in this format, but this one was far too uncomfortable to read because of the awkward and unrealistic dialogue, the cringy and underexplained drama, and how predictable it was. There were definitely parts that made me crack a smile and I liked the discussion of the characters' sexualities (the mc is demi and the love interest is bi), but I don't think this author was the right person to write this type of story, unless she watches a lot more Tik Toks and does research on how teens actually talk and interact.

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この本は多くの可能性を秘めているので、レビューするのは難しいですが、それはただ…悪かったです。何よりもまず、この本は実際の10代の若者にとって非常に楽しいものだったと思うので、高校生のときにこの本を気に入ったかもしれません。しかし、再び、私は、ティーンエイジャーでさえ、書体に問題があり、

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This book has so many possibilities that it's hard to review, but it was just ... bad. First and foremost, I think this book was a lot of fun for real teens, so you might have liked it when you were a high school student. But again

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この本には非常に多くの可能性があるので、レビューするのは難しいですが、それは...悪いことでした。何よりもまず、この本は本当の10代の若者にとってはとても楽しいものだったと思います。でもまた

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There are so many possibilities in this book that it's hard to review, but it was ... bad. First and foremost, I think this book was a lot of fun for real teenagers. But again

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この本には非常に多くの可能性があるので、レビューするのは難しいですが、それは...悪いことでした。何よりもまず、この本は本物のティーンエイジャーにとってとても楽しいものだったと思います。でもまた

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There are so many possibilities in this book that it's hard to review, but it was ... bad. First and foremost, I think this book was a lot of fun for real teenagers. But again