There’s So Much I Need to Say to You

It took me a few chapters to get into the book. Lots of information and characters to proces but once I got into it, I was eager to read more. Taryn goes on an entire journey in this book and I was with her every step of the way. I wondered the same things she wondered and I like that this book was her view on the world around her. The wlw love story isn't the only main story in the book and it's great to see how we get a glimpse of the different relationships in Taryn's life. It's a coming of age book about first love but also about friendship, unconditional sibling love and mourning the loss of a parent.

this book was a touch outside my normal genres but i absolutely loved it. it has a wlw main character which is always a plus, and that's what drew me in. i didn't expect the rest - the rawness of processing grief and love and loss. i literally cannot recommend this book enough, but here are some of my favorite quotes to convince you to read it
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"As time passes, the people you love die again and again: when you think of them, when you see their photograph, when you hear their laugh in a crowd. Grief and love are intermixed. The pure light of love doesn’t come without the darkness of grief."
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"We’ve kissed each other a hundred times tonight, but only in our minds, with our glances, in the tender touch of our hands."
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"We have all, each of us, loved and lost: a mother, a father, a husband. I remind myself not to just focus on what they left us, but who their absence inspired us to become."