I was given an arc of this copy of this book by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

After a slow start, Junie sucked me in. It felt like the first 100 pages took forever, but after breaking through them, it flew by and I found myself craving to read.

The story follows Junie, her mother Maddie, her best friend Estelle, and Estelle’s mother, Faye, and Junie’s school teacher, Shirley. While my favourite character was Junie, but my favourite perspective was Maddie’s. Maddie is dark and flawed and basically an awful person, but often awful people are my favourite people to read about.

The end of chapters that jumped into first person perspective confused me a little, I wish they had just stayed in 3rd person, but other than that, I don’t really have any complaints. Junie just kind of… always knowing she didn’t like men was refreshing to read, and I am happy with the way the relationships worked out in the end.

I definitely recommend checking Junie out!

Thank you to Netgalley and Book*hug Press for the ARC.

DNF at around 30% of the book - I wanted to get through this, I really did, but the writing style (alongside the formatting on kindle, unfortunately, though I don't really want to knock that as I don't know if that'll be the same when it gets published) really turned me off. The changes from 3rd to 1st person POV was jarring to me, and alongside the format, it was really hard to tell when it changed. I found myself not really caring about the characters that I was reading about, to the point where I didn't think I could actually finish for a proper review.

That's not to say this is a bad book at all - maybe if I read it again in a proper format I could get into it? Or maybe it's just that the writing style isn't for me but could be for other people. But as it was, I just couldn't finish this book.