In the Shallows

Content warnings: accident resulting in amnesia (not MC), references to toxic relationships (romantic, and also parent/child), child abuse (drugging the child to make them sick), parent with mental illness and said parent also uses that to manipulate her child. Rep: Mara (MC) is cis, Desi and lesbia......more

How can a book that starts off so good fumble the bag so badly. This book is extremely well written, but it wasn't enough to distract me from what the absolutely shit plot. Especially the reveal in the end is horrible. It reminded me a lot of Everything, Everything and I mean that as the opposite of......more

2024 reads: 299/250 content warnings: child abuse, medical content, mental illness mara’s ex, nico, is the girl of her dreams…but she’s not so sure nico feels the same. but then nico goes missing…and when she finally reappears, all she remembers is her name. mara takes this as an opportunity to have a......more

This is a difficult one for me to review because I wanted to love it so much. Afterlove is one of my all time favourites, so I had high hopes for this but it sadly didn’t quite hit the mark for me. There were elements I loved (the friendships in particular) but I struggled with my feelings about the......more

it was definitely a book! i just don’t think it was for me, a lot of beautiful writing but also it felt like nothing was being said 😭😭 and idk the ending still doesn’t explain why nico was such a dick to mara......more