But even the background characters of this book who aren’t mentioned very much feel like real people! Pretty rad.įIVE: There are text messages in this!!! I love unique formatting in any incarnation, but man, I really love books with text messages in them. Most contemporaries manage to have exactly one (1) best friend character, because authors are like, Realistic worldbuilding and characters with real, populated lives = too haaaaaaard, presumably. (If you’re me.)įOUR: Full background characters. This is 100% suffering and black sweaters and edginess. The characters are veeeerrrrryyyyy bitter and judgmental and hateful. ![]() ![]() Do not let the pink-and-gold color scheme and the calligraphy fool you: this is the darkest contemporary I have read in a long time. This is not necessarily something I like, but boy is it something I read a lot of. (And by “look at it,” I mean pull a me and gaze at it lovingly for several minutes.) This book is, like, made up of my weaknesses. I read the inside of the dust jacket, said “yeah ok maybe” (by which I mean I saw “contemporary that involves text messages” and did everything short of performing an original song entitled “Hell Yes, This Is A Very Good Thing”), and wrote the title down in my notes app. I was killing several hours in a Barnes & Noble (not because I was waiting for something or anything, but because one of my favorite activities is “residing in a bookstore for long enough that I am forced to wonder whether I should update my listed address in several databases/paperworks”) when, like an oasis, or a dusty pink angel, this book appeared. Okay just hang on one quick second we’re going to talk about the actual, you know, contents of this book but first: are you seeing this cover. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch-via text-and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other. When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him. ![]() He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn’t actually know anything about her. For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent.
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