This book told the story of Daphne and Oliver.
Their brother and sister were dating and killed themselves.
Seven years later, Daphne finds a list her sister made and decides to contact Oliver and tell him about it.

I thought I would like this book but I couldn’t.
I rolled my eyes a lot and I guess the whole thing was just unbelievable to me. I couldn’t get into the story, especially since I didn’t really like the characters.
Also, lots of slutshaming…
At least, it was pretty short.

How would you cope with the death of a loved one? Will you be able to continue your life and do not look back? Daphne has to ask herself this question every day for the past seven years and she constantly thinks back to the day her sister and her boyfriend committed suicide. Emily and Jason had both depression and stopped taking their medication. They left no note. They left their families with no explanation. But, one day after school Daphne finds a box of Emily’s things hidden under a floorboard, which included a bucket list.

Emily & Jason’s Top Ten:
1. The Great Wall of China
2. Jim Morrison’s grave
3. Climb Mount Everest
4. Skydive
5. The Sahara Desert
6. Own a pair of designer shoes
7. Niagara Falls
8. Running with the Bulls
9. Go To Outer Space
10. ?

Daphne doesn’t know what to do with this list, but there’s one person in the whole world who would and she wants to share this last piece of her sister with Jason’s brother, Oliver. He receives a friends request from Daphne, who he instantly recognised as Emily’s sister. He does not accept it because he doesn’t want to be reminded of the past. However, Daphne does not give up and confronts him in person at his school. While there, she discovers the school church and finds herself talking to the pastor on my occasions. It is there that Oliver later finds Daphne and they discuss what they should do about the bucket list. They could fulfil it themselves.

The pair are aware they can’t travel the world and leave everyone or not graduate, so they find substitutes in Los Angeles instead. Climbing Mount Everest becomes a hike to the Hollywood sign, visiting Jim Morrison’s grave becomes Marilyn Monroe’s, and visiting the Sahara becomes a trip to the Nevada desert.

Connected through tragedy, they find one another and they both understand how the other feels by talking about their siblings and building a friendship.

So Glad To Meet You shows what happens to those left behind with one person’s choice creating a butterfly effect on the people in their lives. We see how both families deal with their loses—Daphne’s family stopped being one with her mother burying herself in work, while her father starts drinking. Meanwhile, Oliver’s parents unknowingly compare him to his brother and he has that weight on his shoulders to take over the family business one day.

As for Daphne, she feels alone and counts the days until she can finally graduate and move to San Francisco for college. For Oliver, he can’t wait to move to Montana and until then, he won’t deal with his feelings and attempts to cope with one girl after another, as long as she doesn’t want more since he’s afraid of having one.

"Isn’t that what love is, though? Except it’s the opposite. Instead of the darkness, you don’t look past the light in the other person. You don’t focus on the bad, the weaknesses, the imperfections. You see what you want to see."

It is nice to see both of them evolve and finding the strength to open up to each other, especially Oliver realising that he has lived in a cocoon and starts to open his heart. There may be some cliches, but it was quite beautiful to see how they find love and a new beginning from something that began as the worst thing in their lives.

So Glad To Meet You is Lisa Super’s debut novel. Super, who works on TV productions and loves travelling, leaves you with a happy ending, but also with two little questions: What did Daphne write under number 10? How did they choose to build their future? There are some hints, but it also leaves a bit of space for your own interpretation.

Excellent book touching on the subjects of suicide in the dual perspective of Daphne, who loses her sister, and Oliver, who loses his brother. To further complicate things, their family members dated at the time they both decided to take their lives and did a lover's suicide. Daphne decides after discovering a secret bucket list written by her sister and her boyfriend, she befriends Oliver and their adventures are beautiful ways of fulfilling those items to the best of their ability. Lovely story I would gladly read again.

Excellent view of life after a family tragedy. Characters are intriguing and realistic to post tragedy. Story of two teens looking for answers and themselves.

So Glad to Meet You by Lisa Super is the story of Daphne Bowman and Oliver Pagano, both seniors in separate high schools. Seven years ago Daphne's sister and Oliver's brother, where high school sweethearts, who committed suicide together. One day Daphne finds a bucket list hidden in her floor boards that the couple made. Daphne decides to track down Oliver and tell him about it. They decide to work on the list together, to find some answers in the deaths. I really enjoyed this young adult book. I enjoyed both of the main characters and was routing for them. The only thing I did not like about the book was the ending felt rushed, at least to me. I will be reading more book by this author. I recommend this book if you enjoy a unique young adult story.

I received this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.

I liked So Glad to Meet You, but I don’t think the author’s style of writing will appeal to every reader.

I think this novel is a very good exploration of the nature of grief and the different ways people can be affected by the suicide of a loved one. The plot revolves around two teenagers, Daphne and Oliver, who are joined by a shared tragedy—the deaths of her older sister and his older brother, who were dating and committed suicide together. Both Daphne’s and Oliver’s lives have been shaped what happened, but they haven’t ever contacted each other. That changes when Daphne finds a bucket list written by their dead siblings and tells Oliver about it. The two of them then decide to try to cross off the items on the list themselves, acting in the stead of their sister and brother. As they spend time together, Daphne and Oliver both finally truly address their grief while falling for each other. Any relationship between them would of course be very fraught, and I appreciated the way the author handled the hesitant development of their romance over the course of the story.

Some people might not like the book as much as I did, though, because of the style in which it is written. The authorial voice is more present than in many YA novels, with the reader very obviously and deliberately being told what Daphne and Oliver are feeling throughout the narrative. I thought it gave the book a slightly old-fashioned feel, but it didn’t bother me much. Anyone who firmly subscribes to the “show, don’t tell” philosophy of fiction might be put off, however.

If they don’t mind that strong authorial presence in the story, I’d recommend this book for readers who enjoy contemporary YA novels that deal with themes of loss and grief.

A copy of this book was provided through NetGalley for review; all opinions expressed are my own.

Since I started it weeks ago I kept postponing reading it because I wasn't getting into it. I didn't dislike the characters but they didn't get to me in a way that made me want to know more about them, more about what they were going to do.
After all this time trying to keep going, I decided that I was not going to finish it.
Some books are just not meant to be with you.

Sad to say that I am not so glad to have read “So Glad to Meet You”. I expected it to be a not-so typical YA romance with the weight of the main characters’ grief pulling them together but also keeping them from fully commiting to a more-than-friends relationship. And yes it is that in some ways but there are lots of disappointing elements here and there:

WEAK MOTIVATION
I get it, they both want to make sense of their shared tragedies so they decided to complete the bucketlist together. But looking back, it seemed so weak to anchor their motivations on the death of their older siblings. The book did not do a good job of making the reader care so much for what’s lost to Daphne and Oliver when Emily and Jason died. Okay, Jason occassionally played catch with the young Oliver. And there’s the casual mention near the end that Daphne looked up so much to Emily to the point of young Daphne emulating her dead sister’s fashion choices. Other than that, Emily and Jason were just a couple of teens who were obssessed with each other and also both were depressed so they kill themselves together.

NOT A RELATIONSHIP TO ROOT FOR
Oliver does not enter boyfriend-girlfriend relationships because, uhm, I honestly forgot the exact reason. Something really vague again about the long-dead Jason and Emily. Oliver’s most defining characteristic is to suffer through lots of blue balls. It’s safe to assume that he posseses a superpower to resist his sexual hormones in the middle of intense make out scenes with the “other” girls vying for his affections. So is Daphne being the little sister of the girlfriend of his dead older brother a justifiable reason to break Oliver’s no-girlfriend policy? Of course not, Oliver is spot on when he said that Daphne “had all the baggage of an ex-girlfriend and he’d never even met her” .

But Daphne is persistent, playing a Goth mystique personality to win Oliver over. While, completing the bucketlist, she knew about Oliver’s commitment issues and yet she often disrespects his boundaries. She creepily went over the lengths of being invited to a house party where Oliver is sure to be attending. Then she flirted and danced with him at that party. And when Oliver blocked her advances with a “Don’t fall for me.”, she got back by confusing him with a fat kiss on his cheek, whispering “I think you’re afraid” and ditching him. There was also this time when Oliver was caught off guard with a spur in the moment kiss from Daphne and although Oliver kissed back, I’m like ew, this is icky and so not consent positive. For me, Daphne’s push and pull with Oliver’s emotions felt more like a sly seduction than pure romantic acts.
In the end, Daphne is just like those other girls who want Oliver to be their boyfriend but she’s way craftier and she played her cards right, so she got the guy. Her being a gothic sister of Emily is just an illusion of depth to her character. And Oliver is just a fellow who goes with the flow. When he finally decided to be Daphne’s boyfriend, it does not feel like that decision came from inside him but more of giving in to Daphne’s Goth mystique seductive acts.

CARDBOARD SIDE CHARACTERS
The book introduced a large cast of characters who did nothing other than be background characters. There’s a potential likable character in Daphne’s sassy bestfriend, Janine. Or potential nuanced antagonists/rivals to Daphne like Katarina and Penny Layton. But these potentials were wasted to give way to completing The List. I am not saying that they have to forego The List because it is the main conceit of the book. I don’t know, I guess you really can’t have the cake and eat it, too. So maybe the book should’ve never mentioned lots of side characters in the first place and just focused on Daphne and Oliver.

Also in relation to this is what felt like a shoehorned diversity. I give props for the book adding LGBTQ and POC characters but like I said they served nothing much to the story.

What’s laughable is that near the ending, all these background characters (aside from Katarina and Penny Layton) played tag with Daphne and Oliver, all looking chummy together. Where did all the insta-friendhip came from? It was so unnatural. It’s like a big musical production where previously unrelated characters are throwing jazz hands to show that they are happy for the main couple.

THE RESOLUTION WAS NOT A REAL REMEDY
They started off as strangers both lost on those seven years of repressed grief. Aside from their inner turmoils, another conflict is that their famillies are understandably different versions of dysfuntional. Then they eventually bonded over a mission to complete The List. And started hitting it of together as a couple and it’s as if their romance magically healed everything. Daphne’s father decided to get into rehab for his alcoholism. Oliver does not resent his family that much. They got acccepted to the colleges that they applied for. Oh wow, let’s all throw some jazz hands again!

OTHER STUFF
The writing is decent with a hit and miss banter between Daphne and Oliver. There were scenes when the characters are full of tears in their eyes, but I felt nothing. The ending does not offer any surprises or big revelations. If there’s anything positive I can say, it is the book’s commitment to The List.

So Glad to Meet You can be a hard book to read. Daphne and Oliver lose their siblings to suicide and this really has an impact on their families. And not in the good sense either. Daphne's mother works 80 hours a week now and her father tries to heal the hurting with alcohol. Oliver's family talks about Jason everyday and how great he was. Except now they're trying to do everything the opposite way with Oliver. He doesn't feel heard.

Both characters have their own way with dealing with all of these emotions. Daphne does her best at school to get out of this town and Oliver does everything the way Jason wouldn't. It's been a few years since Jason and Emily died when Daphne finds the list of their top ten places to visit. Daphne becomes curious and contacting Oliver seems like the best idea.

It takes a bit, but they finally come together to work on this list. The places aren't easy to really do, two high school students can't just up and leave to go visit The Great Wall of China. Daphne and Oliver improvise and slowly get to know each other. I love reading about their adventures together. Each chapter switches point of view, so we can read about what they both think and feel. Being younger when Emily and Jason died, made things hard. There are a few flashbacks of memoires of their siblings and I think they fit this book well.

While working on their list they get to know themselves a bit more. I think doing these things brings them closer to their siblings, but also lets them heal. They start to realize they can be their own person and let go. So Glad to Meet You brings tears to your eyes and a smile to your face. This author did a good job with this one in my opinion. Losing someone to suicide is something I can relate to, so the thoughts and emotions are relatable.

This is really a book people need to experience without knowing too much. I honestly went into this book blind and am happy I did. The only thing that ended up bugging me was the scene where they sleep together. The scene was written in a way that didn't fit this book. Of course, relationships develop, but I don't think we would've missed anything if this scene wasn't written. All in all, I thought So Glad to Meet You was a beautiful book. A journey of healing and experiencing things for the first time.

Coming of age is perfected in Lisa Super's So Glad to Meet You. The reader is taken on a journey with Oliver and Daphne in completing the list that each of the older siblings had created for the top 10 things they wanted to do when they dated before they committed suicide together 7 years prior. Both are looking forward to the upcoming escape of leaving their houses that are no longer the same since their older siblings death and the shadows and memories that college provides. Each has handled their grief and the aftermath differently, just as their parents have handled it all in almost the opposite ways. Not many books, especially young adult ones handle the ramifications of the survivors of suicides and this book is such a touching one that will linger in the readers' mind. Thanks to Diversion Books and Netgalley for allowing me access to an ARC of this special book.

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher, and author for an advance copy of this book.

"Isn't that the point of suicide? You have nothing left to say."

Actual rating is somewhere in the 3.5-3.75 range. The ending really worked for me.

So Glad to Meet You is a YA contemporary that follows two characters from third person perspectives. The gist of the story is that Daphne and Oliver are very different people with very different lives with the exception of one thing - Daphne's older sister used to date Oliver's older brother and they committed suicide together seven years ago. Both Daphne and Oliver, as well as their family dynamics, have changed to cope with this in whatever way they can, until one day Daphne finds what looks to be a bucket list created by Emily and Jason before their untimely deaths. Daphne brings it to Oliver and the two of them attempt to complete the list in their own way.

Part road-trippy, part high school drama, part romance, part teenage angst, So Glad to Meet You tackles tough subjects in a way that manages to convey the seriousness of the subject, but still keep a light-hearted fun feel to the book.

Biggest complaint would be that the book is marketed as LGBTQIA+, however that is an extremely small portion of the book...so small in fact, it was not introduced until 74% into it, and total time spent on the subject was maybe two pages if you put everything together. Smaller complaint is that I don't feel like Oliver's character was written super well. The general idea that he's a typical dude who never knows what he wants regarding girls (besides sex) until it's too late is there, but with what he went through, I feel like there should've been a lot more depth to him.

Trigger warnings for suicide

What if the only connection you had with someone was shared grief? That is how the relationship between Daphne and Oliver starts. Both have suffered a loss and both are handing it in a very different way.

Both Daphne and Oliver’s older siblings committed suicide but when Daphne finds a bucket list of things that they had wanted to do she sets off on a journey with Oliver to try and do a facsimile of the things on the list.

What is truly special about So Glad To Meet You is that it looks at the issue of mental health from the perspective of the family; those who are indirectly dealing with mental health issues because they have a family member with a mental health condition. Personally, I don’t think this is explored enough and fiction is the ideal platform. The relationship between Daphne and Oliver is constructed in a way that you know that they really feel like they are the only ones who understand each other. Their losses are coming from the self same place. It really is like the world revolves around them.

So Glad To Meet You is a wonderful page turner that needs to be on everybody’s TBR pile.

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The story of So Glad To Meet You starts with Daphne, a 17-year old girl, who uncovers a bucket list that belonged to her sister, Emily, and her boyfriend, Jason. Daphne feels a bit shocked when she finds the note with 10 items on it. Emily and Jason committed suicide together 7 years earlier. Daphne decides that completing the bucket list will help her find some kind of closure, but she doesn’t want to do this alone. She needs someone who understands what she has gone through for the last 7 years, so she reaches out to Oliver, Jason’s brother.

The chapters of So Glad To Meet You follow the bucket list. For example there is a chapter called ‘The Great Wall of China’, which is number 1 on the list. The story is built around Daphne and Oliver trying to complete the bucket list in a very creative way.

Daphne and Oliver are very different characters. Daphne is an eccentric and confident girl, Oliver is the typical popular guy and a bit of a womanizer. I thought Daphne was a likeable character and I could relate to her. Oliver.. There were some parts in the book where I just couldn’t stand him. He has an attitude and he is pretty emotionally detached. But Lisa Super did do an amazing job in explaining why Oliver acts the way he does.

The story is about two teenagers dealing with loss, grieve, acceptance, friendship and love. The characters in the book (Oliver, Daphne and their parents) all deal with the loss of Emily and Jason in their own way. The subject of suicide is heavy and difficult, but I think the book dealt with it in a respectful way.

Still.. I felt a bit unsatisfied after finishing So Glad To Meet You. The story soon became more of a contemporary romance novel. Nothing wrong with that, but I expected and hoped for something else. There are some short flashbacks to Emily and Jason’s story and I would have liked to read more about them and their part of the story. The ending wasn’t what I hoped for either.. And that’s why I gave this book 3 out of 5 stars. It’s a wonderful and fast read, it just wasn’t what I expected it to be.

So Glad To Meet You by Lisa Super is a tale of two teens as they go on a self-discovery adventure together, whilst trying desperately to outrun their grief.

Emily & Jason were childhood sweethearts, who seemed to have had it all, until they committed suicide together in Emily's family home.

Fast forward 7 years...

Daphne, Emily's younger sister finds a hidden bucket list created by Emily & Jason. Filled with emotional turmoil, Daphne reaches out to Jason's brother, Olly, in hope that they could work together to complete the bucket list for their long-lost siblings.

So Glad To Meet You is a beautifully written book, told in alternating points of views between the two main characters, along with flashbacks. This story touches on so many important themes, but somewhat still keeping it light enough for a YA audience. I really enjoyed the introduction to serious themes such as teen suicide, depression, anxiety and so much more. I don't feel that many books truly portray the emotional turmoil that most if not all teens go through sometime in their adolescent years.

Daphne is a "what you see is what you get" kind of girl, she's very comfortable in her own skin; Olly is a womanising jock, and both share hidden complexities as they live their lives in fear of history repeating itself.

This was a very character-driven book and a lot of my love for this book was because of the very well-written characters. I absolutely loved Daphne, a girl comfortable in her own skin, a what you see is what you get kind of girl. Olly was different, you may not like him immediately, but as the story continues and Lisa unfolds his character, we soon see who he truly is, and that Olly was so loveable. The characters truly made this book for me.

I quite enjoyed So Glad To Meet You, but I had hoped that Daphne and Olly actually travelled to complete the bucket list, having said that, I enjoyed their resourcefulness and interpretation of the list. I did feel a bit cheated in that department.

I also wished there was more flashbacks part, I became heavily invested in Emily and Jason's story straight away and wish this was more two tales intertwined into one, but this didn't reach that expectation for me.

So Glad To Meet You by Lisa Super is a wonderful book, that touches on serious but necessary themes, loveable and complex characters that will have you cheering them on till the very last page. A very character-driven young adult contemporary with a beautiful plot line that will move your heart strings not just for the love and grief, but everything else in between.

I got this ARC via NetGalley

2.5/5

While this was your average sad contemporary, I found the way it was marketed really flawed. In NG, it's tagged under "LGBT+" and there's only a lesbian side couple that's mentioned maybe three times, not very extensively. The coming out scene was at like 70% in. THIS IS NOT AN LGBTQIAP+ BOOK!!!!!!!! And it's awful that it's using those small, almost irrelevant side characters as a way to catch people's attention.

Also, the way minorities were treated in this book was a bit eh. Both main characters are white and straight, and it seemed like everyone around them wasn't. And when you do that, you're trying to prove that you're not racist/homophobic and it's instrumentalism at its best.

Plain main characters whose only trait is "having a dead sibling". Constantly pulls on heartstrings to make itself look deeper. The romance wasn't necessary at all, and I would've loved if it wasn't a thing. As soon as they start dating there is a collage of scenes leading up to them leaving for college, and it felt rushed. It obviously still needs polishing.

But it was a fast read, I guess, and the to-do list the MCs's siblings left was fun. But that's it, really.

Really enjoyed this book. It was incredibly unique and original take on a tried and true storyline of girl meets boy.

I'm here with another book review, So Glad To Meet You by Lisa Super. Thanks so much to NetGalley for sending me an eARC of this book for an honest review, as always, all opinions are my own.

**TRIGGER WARNING: This book deals with topics of mental illness, depression, alcoholism and suicide. I will touch on some of these topics in my review so proceed with caution.**

This book follows Oliver and Daphne, the younger siblings of high school sweethearts Jason and Emily. After Jason and Emily committed suicide seven years ago after battling depression, their families have struggled to deal with the loss. Daphne's parents have become distant - her father has turned to alcohol to cope and her mother works herself to exhaustion, and Oliver has committed himself to be the polar opposite of his brother. After finding a bucket list of sorts, Daphne enlists Oliver to complete everything Emily and Jason didn't.

So, I knew there was going to be a romance. You just ~ cannot ~ have a book these days without a romance in it. For the most part, I didn't mind it. But there were just some points where things weren't working out and I felt like things were pushed a bit too much. Eventually, you can see some chemistry between Oliver and Daphne, but there was a lot of drama involved beforehand to make it work.

This book also deals with mental illness and suicide. It's talked about quite a bit by the characters and I think that Super does a good job of relaying Oliver and Daphne's reactions. The book also takes place many years after the fact so their reactions to things have had a chance to settle a little. The grief was still current, but really, this was more of a romance than a mental health novel.

I found the writing to be decent. It took a little to get used to but once I did, I was quick to finish the book. I would say that it is a pretty character-driven book - the main focus was on Oliver and Daphne and their relationship, even less so on their grieving. I don't necessarily think this was a bad call, but I do think I might have enjoyed it better if there was more to the plot.

Overall, there were some just general book aspects that didn't do any favours for me - young sounding narrators, third-person POV, high school setting, etc. and I think, in the end, this was a romance with some grief, not a grief story with some romance.

Daphne turns 18 this year, her sister Emily and boyfriend Jason took their own life when they were 17,seven years ago. She comes across Emily and Jason's bucket list and decides to fulfill them with the help of Oliver, Jason's brother. 2 families affected by the same tragedy, one keeps the memories too much alive, one wipes the memories out of existence. Both sets of parents don't understand Daphne or Oliver. They feel lost in the shadows of Emily and Jason.

Will the bucket list give them closure?

Why did Emily and Jason suicide?

Read to find out 

I enjoyed reading this.  This was a different concept but,  I felt the story concentrated more on the romance rather than grief. It was easy to  connect to both the main characters. It does talk about the impact suicide causes on the loved ones of the victim.  The story is narrated in third person , but the POV changes between Oliver and Daphne, it was good to hear both sides of the story.

Wow, what a moving story. This does deal with processing grief after sibling suicide, and attempting to make sense of the "whys" following such a heartbreaking loss. Two teens who knew of one another but had never interacted come together after one finds a travel bucket list that was written by both of their older siblings who died together in a suicide pact. I found myself grieving for everyone impacted, but the author did a beautiful job of bringing in a sense of healing and hope. I did wonder why both sets of parents had no reservations/fears when it came out that they were growing closer (given the tragedy that marked them all), but this was a worthwhile and emotional read.

When I first read the synopsis for So Glad To Meet You, I got it into my head that seeing the characters of Daphne and Oliver process their grief through their siblings’ incomplete bucket list would be something worth reading. This isn’t a topic that is touched on often that I’ve seen, so I thought reading it would be a great opportunity to see that. Before we dive into my review, I do have a couple TW/CWs to list for it, though some of them are obvious just from the synopsis.

Suicide (described on the page via flashback)
Grief
Addiction
Slut shaming
Unclear consent
The characters were developed well enough that I feel like I could have a conversation with them, but I mostly had trouble putting myself in their shoes. I really liked Daphne’s character and how she’s nice but she’s also a sarcastic and sassy girl who knows what she wants and goes after it. I definitely was rooting for her from beginning to end. I wasn’t as big a fan of Oliver, but about halfway it became clear that many of his mannerisms are his way of coping with grief. I do feel like many of the characters could have used an extra layer of depth, but it wasn’t the worst character building I’ve seen.

I did notice that NetGalley filed this one under its LGBTQIA category so I feel the need to add here that there are a couple LGBTQIAP+ characters in the novel but the main characters are not specifically labeled as part of the queer community and the relationship between the two of them is m/f. One or both of them very well might be LGBTQIAP+, but it’s not canon on the page.

I’m fairly certain that the majority of So Glad To Meet You takes place in present day Los Angeles? This wasn’t made clear enough for me to be certain and there was a little bit of conflicting information. This might be corrected in the finished version, but from the digital galley I read, the world building was minimal at best.

The story flowed a bit choppy and didn’t seem to be going anywhere for a long while. I’m going to chalk that up to Lisa Super being a debut author, because reading the novel was still entertaining. Also, SLOW BURN ROMANCE!! 💖🔥💖🔥 I was a little disappointed that the list didn’t play a bigger role in the story, but I did like to see how it integrated with the other aspects of Daphne and Oliver’s lives. I do really like how the different examples of familial processing of grief are really well displayed throughout the novel. There was so much going on there and I really enjoyed seeing it and how it affected each of the characters individually.

All of this being said, I really enjoyed reading this one. In fact, I finished it in a single sitting, which is saying a lot for me lately. It dealt with a lot of rough topics, though it didn’t dig as hard into them as I was expecting, while still giving a nice view of relationships, both plutonic and romantic. I definitely look forward to reading more of Lisa Super’s work in the future!