I usually really enjoy this author's books but somehow True Colors just didn't work for me. 
 I really liked the basic story. Friends to enemies to lovers with a healthy heaping of angst is pretty much my ideal storyline. I also really liked the main charaters, Marco and Oscar, and the tension between them. Especially Marco's struggle with his body after an accident left scars on his body made for an interesting twist. 
 So why did it still not work for me? 
 For one, there were a lot of things left unsaid or at least not talked about in a satisfying way. The dialogue wasn't on point unfortunately which frustrated me quite a bit. 
 I also wasn't a fan of some of the side characters, especially Oskar's little sister Zoe who annoyed me to no end. Pretty much all secondary characters were too meddlesome so I was glad for every page that was only about Oskar and Marco. 
 It's also set in Germany but it didn't feel like it at all. There were a lot of details that just didn't ring true and gave the book a kind of murky vibe. 
 But what didn't work for me the most was the whole theater thing. It felt so over the top and forced the boys into annoying and uncomfortable positions that just took a lot of fun out of the book for me. A lot of it was aforementioned side characters' fault so these two points basically go hand in hand and just made it all extra exhausting. 
 So all in all the things I didn't like about this book definitely outweigh the things I did like unfortunately. Bummer but I still won't give up on this author since I genuinely liked a lot of her other books. Eh, can't love 'em all ;)