1⭐️
*spoiler warning*
Lark wants to be a writer and for the moment that means posting on twitter to build their audience. But when their ex best friend Kasim accidentally posts a thread onto their twitter declaring his unrequited love for someone Larks tweets ate suddenly the talk of the school.
This is it my first 1 star of the year and I'm so upset about it. I didn't go into this book expecting a mind-blowing read but I loved King and the Dragonflies by the author so I thought that I'll love this one too but I hated every second of reading this. Lark was an annoying and terrible main character, they thought they were right about everything and they didn't like it when people had opinions different to them making them insufferable. The writing was bad and childish, there was a lot or repetition for things such as the pandemic which was mentioned so many times. Also there was a lot of conversations about accountability towards the end and how the main character needs to take accountability for some harmful things they've said but the conversation wasn't good, someone kept telling Lark they needed to take accountability but never said what for just kept saying they are toxic which I feel is the opposite of helpful when it comes to taking accountability. Also I don't think Lark ever actually did take accountability so the conversation felt redundant in terms of the characters. The side characters were either boring or annoying, there wasn't a single one I liked, even Larks mother annoyed me at times (most of the time tbh).
The love interests felt rushed and mot very well thought out or written. The main character ends up in a poly couple at the end and it came out of no where. It was so poorly written I genuinely thought that Lark was joking when they said they were in love with one of them.
One other thing I hated was how unrealistic the twitter storyline was. No one in real life cares that much about a twitter thread and no one will care if it turns out it was a lie as its twitter and nothing on twitter is ever that serious, and no publishers are suddenly going to hand over a publishing deal when you get to 50K followers on twitter if they won't give it to you at 20K followers.
The one thing i did like and appreciate is that It has a lot of important conversations about issues such as race, gender, sexually and neurodivergency.
Side note, this is called Lark and Kasim start a revolution but they don't? At all?
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