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M E S S Y people gotta stay M E S S Y.

series rating: 3/5
book rating: 3/5

mary: her POV could have cut out of this book and my knowledge of significant events wouldn't have changed a fraction of an ounce. it's not great when you know a character has literally been bullied to the point that they attempt suicide, and yet you have more vested interest in their bully. mary is too bland! none of her personality reaches past the page. i know nothing of her.

kat: she gets a job. she is now steadily my favourite character (excluding PJ) though she really doesn't do anything important in this book. excluding stuff that comes up at the end, where (view spoiler)[ giving rennie the keys was dumb and i don't get why she is so hard on lillia about reeve? can we NOT blame lillia when u did tell her to get in a relationship, what did u realistically think would happen (hide spoiler)]

lillia: just a messy girl in this one. said some of my thoughts in the spoiler above. i'm not mad at her for any choices she makes in this book because at the end of the day, she's a teen girl w/ hormones and nothing was done maliciously imho. she was put in a bad position. one thing i will say is (view spoiler)[ her rape is brought up in full, finally, and i needed MORE from the authors. lillia blames herself and i'm like NO. NO NO. (hide spoiler)]

rennie: i still hate her. nothing she does ever feels authentic, it all seems to be done to manipulate people. (view spoiler)[ her death at the end makes no sense. this is a book, so an author needs to make these events logical. rennie is never redeemed and her death doesn't suit any plot purpose that i can see. (hide spoiler)]

reeve: he is amazing now. jk not really but that is what the book says. i actually can't understand what i feel about him, because he's so back and forth. i get whiplash from this boy. i can't tell if he's lying, if the authors didn't write him well enough, or if he's just hella confused.

alex: another case of whiplash. i cannot deal with the men in this book.

the plot: the plot was just lillia pretending to love reeve and then break up with him to break his heart like he broke mary's. hence why our two other protags had absolutely nothing to do for the rest of the book. we all know what happens in a fake romance plot, so that happened. i didn't like a lot of the surrounding cast in this book. let me screech it for you: JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE SAYS I LIKE THIS GUY DOESN'T ME THEY OWN HIM.