I was honestly really nervous to read this, for a bunch of reasons. Green's older books, that I loved at the time, haven't really worked as well in hindsight (pretentious writing, manic pixie dream girls, and fairly manipulative sad scenes/deaths). I was afraid that this book would be all of the same things and I would have to move on from his books. I do love his actual writing style (aside from the fact that the teens never really felt like teens to me). Aza's head was a tough place to be. It wasn't easy to read but it felt real. I can't imagine having those thought spirals to that extent. The story was nothing like I expected based on the synopsis and that ended up being a good thing, I think. It's a quiet story without a lot of action, which also felt like a good thing to me. I didn't love the ending but I also did at the same time lol sooo take that with a grain of salt.