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A great conclusion to this trilogy. We find Shannon navigating middle school friendship weirdness: how to be friends with boys, feeling jealous of friends, friends who don‘t like each other, and more. She‘s also still working through anxiety and OCD (undiagnosed, with a great endnote about it). I really understood Shannon‘s struggles, and I think a lot of people would. Recommend. #52Books23 #timeintitle

Surprisingly enjoyable. I liked the first in the trilogy well enough, and this was better. Aside from the expected love story, there‘s a plot involving counterfeiting that was pleasantly well-developed with a strong resolution. Add in cameos from the first couple and it was good fun. #52Books23 #secondhandbook

Oh boy. All right, first, I saw almost all the twists coming, so that was frustrating. The story was middling. Here‘s the BIG problem, though: A.L. Herbert is a pseudonym for a writer who is neither Black nor female, yet presents as such. I don‘t believe that every writer writing from a different perspective is guilty of cultural appropriation (it depends on how they do so and how they present themselves in the attempt) BUT 👇🏻

An interesting story told in a disjointed way. The interview transcriptions, testimony or whatever they are, didn‘t seem to fit so early in the book and therefore became distracting. Then they disappeared in the latter portions, where they might have fit better. The “women who pursued him” part of the subtitle is misleading, too, as it mostly refers to Mabel Walker Willebrandt, the assistant US attorney general in charge of Prohibition violations.