I loved that not everything had a happy ending. No one is just one thing, and I loved how that was tackled in a subtle manner, so effortless that it’s barely there and yet it resounds.
#Counting down with you tv#
I realized how strange it is for me to be ashamed of how much TV I watch just because I am academically inclined and read a lot.
#Counting down with you skin#
It made me feel more comfortable in my skin knowing that we aren’t just one person meant to fit in boxes. He was a guy who loved eating strawberry sorbet, and classical music and he likes stargazing and astronomy and isn’t stupid. It was delightful to see that Ace was described as a bad boy with his leather jacket and disregard for rules, but he wasn’t just that. When I went into this book, I was expecting a leather jacket-wearing jerk, riding a motorcycle with childhood issues of being assaulted or bullied or whatnot (courtesy of the bad-boy trash I have had the misfortune of reading). I think it was so important to put out the fact that characters can’t be put into the boxes we as readers and writers seem to create for them. (Also I know we weren’t supposed to like Xander but I was kind of rooting for him and Cora to sort of get together… or maybe have their own book? Casual feelers put out, universe do your magic!) It felt healthy, something I share with my own girlfriends.
The constant support between these three friends was so wholesome and lovely as they pushed each other to be their best selves and yet backed off when it was needed. Drama isn’t continuous in just one student’s life, it happens and then it doesn’t. Sure those are things that happen in high school, but they don’t happen to everyone and there are schools able to cultivate a normal experience similar to the one I had. Bullying, cliques, mean girl, friend drama. Nandini, Cora and Karina are so lovely together (DIVERSITY FOR THE WIN!), and it was so nice to see a high school book focused on relatively normal happenings rather than picking up on tropes that are so easy to build on. The high school seemed normal as well, there wasn’t the typical mean girl who’s a cheerleader or the valedictorian to be.
I adored that there were healthy girl friendships, with no drama. Suffice to say I was very surprised by how different what I got was!įirstly, the friendships. This past month has been a slow reading month for me and most of what I’ve been reading is a part of this genre I have conveniently named ‘bad-boy trash’ in which case there are some really problematic themes of reluctance and sexual prowess and bullying which I don’t want to attack here. So when I went to this I was expecting a very Wattpadish romance. It was so nice reading about a person of color! All the romances I’ve been reading have been about white people and I’m so glad to finally have some diversity! But that was just one of the small somethings that made this book good. But I picked this up because the blurb was deliciously enticing. I don’t usually read high school romances anymore, they seem unrealistic to me, what are the odds that you meet the man/woman you will end up marrying ten years later in school when the most pressing problem is getting an A in history class or the newest pimple that pops up on your nose making you look like Rudolph at Christmas.
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