But okay, let's roll with it: as far as fake dating goes, Stevie acts very lacklustre and uninvested, seeming like a really bad girlfriend. We've seen a bunch of Iris, including some of her more painful experiences leading to her not dating. most of the time when someone was revealed as queer, it added nothing to the progression of the story.

Because the Iris in this story, with her stupid negative motivation* of forgoing relationships for just a bunch of sex, is unsympathetic and boring. What I didn’t like: at times I felt like this was a little bit miscommunication, or more accurately, lack of communication-y. I love that Stevie was the one with generalized anxiety, but Iris needed just as much help to believe in herself. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It was so fantastic to see snippets (and they were few and far between, sadly) of my OTP, Delilah and Claire.

New insight into iris was just what i wanted to see with the addition of Stevie who is an emotional, strong sweet character and following her journey was amazing. The book doesn't even give the poor guy any lines, but makes a point to mention him again, this time by the narrator: "It was two gay men - one of them trans(.

Perfectly happy to ignore her problems as per usual, Iris goes to a bar in Portland and meets a sexy stranger, Stefania, and a night of dancing and making out turns into the worst one-night stand Iris has had in her life. Every single character in this entire series has been amazing, the small town setting was perfect, I loved each individual journey, and the last chapter was absolutely fantastic. The thing is that many of us are motivated to not do things for a lot of different, perfectly valid and reasonable, reasons. It’s a bummer that I didnt connect with Stevie that much, bc I can DEF relate to her anxiety, particularly abt dating/meeting new ppl (not quite to her levels, but, still) but I never rlly did.Started a bit slow, but grew on me to the point where I was yet again a sobbing mess saying “aww” through my tears. I loved the banter between Stevie and Iris, and how they just came together so easily, even if it wasn't what they both wanted originally.