I couldn't help but cheer and love Mallory, I just wanted to reach into my kindle and give her the biggest hug ever, with no words. A great example of this is Mallory’s friendship with Easton and the interplay of Mallory feeling FOMO as Easton goes off to college while Easton worries she is being similarly phased out due to Mallory’s rising-star adventures. the characters were flat and didn’t have much personality, the ethics of the relationship were questionable, the smut was truly some of the worst i have ever read, etc.

women who have to pick up the pieces of their broken lives, women who have had very little power to act and affect, women who have had very little say and contribution in the outcomes, their voices echoing in the hollowness of deaf ears either because they are not the right color, not the right age, not the right gender.

As her first YA release (also her first non-STEM release), I was initially a little worried and curious to see how she’d adapt her writing and characters.

Sorry if I run out of quotes halfway through the review, there's like none in the quotes section and I don't want to go back into the book. and it’s PG 13 - don’t you go crying and booing in my doorstep, now, please, because their interactions and affectionate moments and late night conversations and “can’t keep my hands/eyes to myself” are, indeed very lovable and heartwarming and - color me surprised - enough to make you love love love the romance. The only thing I had a issue with is that Ali Hazelwood would always talk about how tall Nolan was, like okay, I get it, Nolan is tall as fuck.Now, I know this might be perceived as unpopular in today's world but YA does not need to have a lot of sex talk in it. Expect secret smiles, inside jokes, affectionate words, intimate touches, late-night talking, and all-night cuddling. like i was saying, although she's not the most creative and innovative person i’ve ever seen in my whole life, her books never fail to miss with me (i'm talking dead serious with you rn) bc they're always able to get me out of the ugliest and most disturbing reading slumps - and thank fck for that (cheers). I didn't like her but I also feel like she never deserves any of the shit she went through for years.

This Is a great book for teenages it has quite a mature them but is full of twists and turns on every page it is the third book in the noughts and cross' series but it expains everything that has happened so far. Look, I know it's not a fair comment given she's just 12 but am gonna tell you why she pissed me off, or rather Ali's writing pissed me off. It also helps raise the stakes in this book because chess matches are covered like they are the Super Bowl and the cash prize is enormous.The entirety of BTS, crammed on the couch of whatever late-night show the YouTube autoplay algorithm decided to feed me after the pH experiment tutorial ended. number one: two reaserches that are best friends (shocker right they are not eniemes that have a missunderstanding) are reaserching nuclear fusion lets say (because we just had a big advancement in that how exciting 😍) okay and get this the two friends both have feelings for each other but hide it to protect there friendship and through there reaserch they are around each other more and so it becomes harder to repress there feelings and suddenly one of them lets slip and they get together, all slowburn so no need for misscommuniaction or anything, you have smut, science, AND slowburn. I admire Ali Hazelwood’s ability to create a main character that the reader can’t help but root for, laying out her inner turmoil for us to see so that we feel so much when we see her going back to chess, going back to doing what she wants to do. But her father's family has a complicated history - one tied up with the fight for equality for the Nought population.