Mourning for someone who is still alive and a past that has been left unresolved, Sunny tells her story, straying away from the darkest aspects of the past with witty comic relief. this is my worst nightmare, please be nice to me is a tale of love, its pains and joys, belonging, and finding trouble in one’s brain, whether literally or figuratively.

thank you to netgalley, the author, and the publisher for providing me with an electronic copy of this book! unfortunately, i had to dnf at around 15%, as i am currently not in a the right state of mind to handle a book with the topics mentioned. i cannot estimate when i'll be able to read it again, so i have decided to leave a review as is for now, and hopefully i can pick it up some other time in the future. i want to take a minute to congratulate the author for her debut at such a young age! wonderful to see.

e-ARC from NetGalley.

When I think of literary fiction, this is the epitome of what I envision: The lives of characters told in vignettes out of chronological order. It was a fascinating character study and a beautiful exploration of relationships and, perhaps, trauma bonds?

The books that sprung most readily to mind when reading this novel were A Little Life and Normal People. The dynamic of the relationships centering around our main antagonist, Charlie, was akin to that of the friend group in A Little Life, but if Jude had been kind of a bad person. At the same time, watching the ways in which these characters repeatedly cycle in and out of each other's lives, how their worlds expand and implode, was very reminiscent of Connell & Marianne from Normal People.

That's not to say this book is the same as either of those novels. But the feelings it evoked in me were certainly similar.

There were certain aspects of this story that didn't quite hit for me. The first-person narration from Sunny of Charlie's dreamscape, for one, and the random almost-essay about Camus and the absurdity of human existence for another. In fact, I could have done without Charlie in general, though he was the catalyst for most of the story.

Ultimately, however, I found this book worth reading and full of complex emotion, complicated characters, and heart. While, at its surface, it seemed like a nostalgic story of a woman remembering pivotal moments in her life while her dying friend awaits a risky surgery, I'd say it's more than that. It was a journey through one's own timeline and a reminder that everyone you meet, even those who are only in your life for a season, impact who you will become.

A definite must-read for fans of intimately told literary fiction.

this is my nightmare please be nice to me follows our narrator, sunny as she navigates her 20s & the hospitalisation of her best friend charlie.
whilst i thought the story itself had great ideas/ themes (and a rlly cute cover) i found it difficult at times to follow along. the storyline jumps around a lot. in some cases that can really give a lot of power to the plot, unfortunately in this case i got a bit lost in the sauce.
there are a lot of characters involved, 2 having the exact same name. I noticed a few spelling mistakes along the way as well.
though i think overall this book wasn’t for me in particular, someone who enjoys Y/A novels would really love this.

This is a strange book narrated by Sunny, a young woman sitting by the bedside of her oldest friend Charlie who has suffered a traumatic brain injury and no one knows if he will live or die.

Told from Sunny’s viewpoint in a series of flashbacks I got the idea that Charlie was not who he thought he was; that rather than being delightful and independent, he was someone who used people until their friendship dissolved. Maybe he was on the autism spectrum. Regardless, I did not find him or most of the other characters very likable, but I think perhaps this was the author’s intent. Nonetheless, I found the book hard to put down as I followed the threads that unraveled the story.

I received this book as an ARC for from the publisher and NetGalley.

To start, I would love to thank Netgalley and Sofia Pires Baquedano for sending me a copy of this ARC.

This book was nothing short of a masterpiece—beautifully written, painful, and was tugging on my heartstrings at 3 in the morning.

My official rating for this is 5 ⭐️. Nothing less. This book definitely had everything I was looking for in it, especially with the diverse character selection. I also love how this book was really thought-provoking and as for someone who gets easily boted with other books, I COULD NOT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN.

This book started off promising and enjoyable but about halfway through I was struggling to keep interested. It jumped around way too much, retold same or similar stories over and over, and had too many characters with similar (or same!) names. I ended up not really liking any of the characters, although I think harping on their flaws was part of the purpose of the book. It felt like Perks of Being A Wallflower in a way. It was supposed to be deep but ended up missing the mark with how scattered it was.

Well, this book probably blew my mind up (in a good way). It was totally out of my comfort zone and it was worth challenging myself in a different genre.