There is so much more to this story that I rather leave unsaid and for the reader to explore. This is exactly the type of book young girls should be reading and I love that Holly Bourne always challenges particular notions that are problematic in our society and dissects it, by putting forth real-life situations that we're all familiar with and/or experienced and calling it out. How it is not realistic, giving women false sense of security or hope and calling out the misogynistic viewpoints that are ingrained in our society. The story was about challenging the notion of romantic-comedies or romantic movies in general. I'm changing my rating to a 5 stars simply because as soon as I woke up this morning, my first thoughts were of this book! I am in love! Please.i just want a cute ease reading gods let me have this happy fun workplace scenes!! which I am always a sucker for.īasically, this book is such a revolutionarily good contemporary I might have to come back and five star it.īottom line: ?!?!?!?!?!?!?! More please. and a romance that is secondary to the happily ever after, too a romantic plotline that is secondary to the other aspects of our girl's life a group of female friends who might seem shallow but are anything but a female character who isn't nice to our female protagonist.without veering into girl hate and a bunch of satisfying scenes in which that heroine screams and/or gets hers

a powerful, badass, damaged heroine who heals herself

a screaming rant against the line 'not like other girls' a takedown of the bit in The Fault in Our Stars when the characters' steamy makeout happens in the Anne Frank House Holly Bourne, where have you been all my life?Ī short, by no means definitive list of just some of the literally innumerable awesome things this book contains:

Book it only happens in the movies