It took me long enough to finish this. 
 First of all I wanted to give a shoutout to my friend, Suraya for raving about Marchetta non stop which is why I pick this book up in the first place. Do you love me now, Suya? 
 Secondly, I absolutely love this book. I love books which highlights important elements in our lives like friendship, and family relationships. It affects me in some ways I can't describe. 
 Francesca's relationship with her dad kind of reminded me of mine with my dad. We're not close but there's something that keeps us together. We have mutual feelings towards each other, like mom would say to me. And we respect whatever we feel. Sometimes, tbh I do not have a favour towards him much and I know, neither does he. We bond over the weirdest things, but movies, usually. My point is that our relationship resembles so much to Francesca's with her dad. 
 Francesca's group of friends is lit. I mean it, they're lit. It's realistic, because friendship doesn't mean we have to always get along. Shit happens. All the time with our friends. No matter how close we are, we talk behind their backs. That's real life. But you know in the end, they always have your back. I appreciate how Marchetta shows that to the world. 
 Um to be honest I expected more but maybe bcs I was overhyped by my friend Suya. I can see Suya scoffing already. Okay okay I will read other Marchetta ok? But don't get me wrong, it was still such a great read and this isn't a great of a review that would do justice to the book so just go read it guys and see it for yourself.