Best of all, she is entirely independent and knows what she wants in life. There isn’t! She’s carefree and free-spirited and finds beauty everywhere and have so much appreciation for life and she reminds me so much of a favorite character, Stargirl. She’s got freckled nose, crooked teeth, wears baggy pants and still manages to look pretty and there’s no transformation, guys. She’s more the lanky but cute, annoying type whose weirdness overshadowed her looks, who looked ordinary and odd from a distance but still exudes a striking quality. Yes, the heroine is pretty (like any NA heroine) but Dylan here isn’t the perfect, gorgeous, sexy heroine type.

Yes, eyes are inevitably described here but not in that super detailed recurring annoying way. It’s actually a lot of fun reading their POVs because one is downright sarcastic and the other is just weirdly cute and funny. Yes, it’s told in alternating POVs of Gray and Dylan (just like in most NAs) but they narrate their stories in easy, simple language without attempting to torture your emotions or punish your brains. You’re allowed to hurt me if I used the word tr.trite one more time. In other words, a lot of them are tropes.Īdmittedly, you’ll find NA tropes here but they are surprisingly good that they don’t really come off as tropes. TBH, I’ve been avoiding them because a lot of those I’ve read (although are good) seem to exhaust me or depress me or make me cry. This is about the story of two people, one trying to blend in but who just seems to stand out more in the attempt and one who effortlessly stands out because of being very different and how these two people who don’t seem to matter much find a way to matter so much to each other.īefore this, it’s been quite long since I’ve read an NA novel. Good thing for you, there’s this reading process called skimming. I seem to have a lot of things to say these days.

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