This is a book that deals with depression and sexuality and the fear of losing creativity and its kind of beautiful. The new teachers pushes her to go outside of her comfort zone which errodes her safe space even further. Early in the book her creative writing teacher (aka her favorite teacher) is in a freak car-accident and suddenly her safe zone disappears. She wants to write sci-fi and has been working with her favorite teacher for years to correct and update a chapter at a time. It’s rare that a friendgroup is only four people – eveyone I went to school with had a few different friendgroups even if only loosely acquainted due to various classes). Spoiler-free Overview: Laila is a high-school student who has the book and movie stereotypical three best friends (this is a minor pet-peeve of mine. And then came home and had a little bit more wine. What I drank prior: Sam and I went to a steakhouse and drank an amazing Malbec.
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