I loved the simplistic mini essays and the transcripts it felt like a therapy sessions (those had me in tears tbh) .....they showed that therapy doesn't show immediate results the moment you start it instead it's done repetitive to achieve a silver of change

I hope the author is happier and in a better place mentally/physically🫶🏾

Too full of embellishments that actually mean nothing.
I don’t know the author, but the idea I unconsciously made of them is that the book was written by someone born around the year 2000, somebody who hasn’t got enough experience in writing, which is an art form and like all arts it takes years to master; prodigies exist, but they’re not the norm. I felt it was written in the edgy fanfiction phase of someone’s life and edited only superficially, if at all, shown by both the vernacular expressed in the conversations between the two main characters and the trying-to-be purple prose that neither manages to be actually purple nor to say anything that’s relevant at all. *
I feel like everybody’s had the experience of having had to write a 5000-word essay and, having managed to write and make your point in only 500 of them, you now had to lenghten it by substituting simple and direct language with words that made a text with sense become senseless, and by adding points that are actually pointless.
I never managed to care for any of the characters; no, that’s not the full truth – I couldn’t stand them. They’re angsty for angst’s sake, without an actual reason nor a meaning to it.
Even the ““mature[-r]”” character, or the one that should be at least a little more so, the one who’s responsible of the other… is only another masked edgy teenager. And I’m not saying that by your thirties you should have your life together, nor am I saying that as a psychiatrist you can’t have a mental disorder or any kind of problem that veers on the psychological (as a matter of fact, I’m of the idea that if they have one, they’re bound to care and to make a better job). No, what I’m actually saying is that you should be able to approach things with a certain maturity/responsibility.
[*There’s also the self-pity that seems to be characteristic of our generation.]
And what makes all of this worse is that I actually saw a potential to the story…
My advice would be to publish the book 2+ years from now, and to work on it in the meantime. This batch felt too rushed.

Thank you netgalley and to the publishers for the ARC. I enjoyed the story and plot of the book. It was engaging and the dialogue help drive the story. I enjoyed the ending of the story and would totally read another book by the author.