Book Review (more just a pile of my personal opinions from my personal experiences)

Title: Happily Ever Afters

Author: Elise Bryant 

Year: 2021 

Genre: YA Fiction/Romance

Queer shit: Gay friend 

Vibe Check: This book is about an arts focused school and I am very jealous and would like to go there.  

Pile of Opinions: Tessa is starting at a new school that specializes in the arts. She is a writer and is there to polish her skills and advance as a writer. She meets friends, meets so many challenges in writing and in romance, and has to find the balance of who she is and how she wants to move around in the world. I absolutely loved this book. It was everything I hoped it would be and gave me butterflies to read through. Elise Bryant is quickly becoming my favorite YA romance writer. This story was sweet and sincere and the characters were not only believable but I finished the book feeling as though they were my friends too. Tessa’s journey of finding her place at a new school, building friendships, and seeing through facades of high school was very real and relatable while also having that “out of a book” edge. This book also didn’t have sex in it which is refreshing to me because every romance story pushing to include sex burns me out a little. I enjoy the innocence of falling for someone without it needing to include teen sex is good representation and nice to mix in with the love stories that get steamy and do involve sex. Please go read this and then go read Bryant’s 2022 book One True Loves so we gush about them.