I would have adored this when I was in 7th grade. It reads very much like a 2013 John Green novel. I thought it’d be Will or Stella so this was only a slight plot twist from the cliché I was expecting. It was very predictable that somebody was going to die. The fact that he died the night of Will’s birthday party that Stella set up doesn’t sit right with me. He didn’t have to be okay with Stella risking her life to be with Will. There’s even something to be said about the notion of minority side/best friend character dying to further the plot of the white main character. A Colombian gay jock who’s Catholic parents were deported and his catchphrases(?) felt like they just modeled him after what they think a gay Hispanic is like. About more cliché characters, Poe is uncomfortably stereotyped. Will as a character, when we first meet him, is also an over exaggerated cliché of the sarcastic boy who doesn’t care about safety. ![]() Certain things that were supposed to be a shock weren’t eluded to subtly. ![]() From the first 25 pages, it felt cliché and predictable.
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