cel ✼ readwithcel's Reviews > Right Where I Left You

friends to lovers never had a bad track. “practice kissing” SLAPS. “friendship cuddles while secretly dying inside” BANGER. “teasing each other and holding eye contact for a little too long” KILLS ME. and don’t even get me STARTED on “why can’t i stop thinking of you when i’m with someone else.”

“he’s more than my best friend - he’s my compass on this journey toward being the version of myself i want to be. all of this is less terrifying when he’s by my side.”

isaac and diego have been best friends since forever. fresh off graduation, isaac grapples with going to college soon, a future where diego won’t be by his side. knowing their time together is limited, he concocts a plan for their summer - tickets to a comic convention. however, an unexpected run-in with his old crush davi leaves him two tickets short of a perfect summer. as isaac and davi grow closer, diego grows distant.

there’s something about books set around graduation that just hit differently. there’s the bittersweetness, the nostalgia, the feeling of teetering on the cusp of something new - exciting and yet terrifying. the realisation that time is not endless. the uncertainty of heading down a new path - at times alone - only to turn back and realise that you’ll still have each other’s backs even if from a distance.

it’s also just. so refreshing seeing fandoms being portrayed so joyously !! i grew up in many fandoms, incorporated them into my personality, found myself in those communities, but also sometimes felt really weird about it - what’s it like to consume a piece of media normally & not hyperfixate? what’s it like to be chill about your interests?

this book shows you how delightful fandoms can be; how the friends you first know through shared passions help you grow into who you are, how these can be the friends who let you in, let you just /be/, and love you for that. and that is good. that fandoms are built on such creative minds, fanartists and fanfic writers. how so much of that shared passion overlaps with how life changing it is to finally see yourself in media.

and when the world says no, you say “then i'll do it”.