I won’t be able to properly articulate how much i enjoyed this book. I feel sad that i haven’t read it until now. Sad for the past me who needed this book the most. Will i ever be the same? A bit dramatic, sure. But i don’t care. This was a fantastic read. And to think i almost dnf’d at the very beginning because i was going in blind and didn’t really know what was happening. I hope everyone one day gets to find a book that speaks to them in the way this did to me. ( )

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