Avery (Taylor's version)'s Reviews > If You Could See the Sun

“Yes, is the obvious answer. I do hate you. I hate everything about you. I hate you so much that whenever I’m around you, I can barely think straight. I can barely even breathe.”

academic enemies to lovers is my OXYGEN.

I've been on a roll lately, I finished three books and wrote three reviews in the span of two days (not counting when I started the books, just when I finished them) and I'm so proud of myself because I am FINALLY out of my horrid reading slump. It wasn't that long of a slump but it wasn't a good one overall.

I had pretty high expectations for this book and they were luckily met!!

The Plot

😴😲❓🤩😢

The plot was decently straightforward, and while it was slightly slow in the beginning, which is one of the reasons I'm not giving this a full five stars, it picked up once everything had been sorted out.

I loved the academics and culture mixed into this and also the small twists and turns the book took. It was a little bland and slow at different points throughout the book, but it was overall good.

Though, I don't think we actually get any closure of why Alice turns invisible. Was it just a random thing or something, or did we actually get an explanation and I missed it?

Some parts in this were also really unexpectedly action packed, like I was just chugging along and then BAM stuff was happening left and right.

It also got really sad at times where I felt so upset for the characters, like it's not fair what they had to go through 😢😭

“I’d rather be the villain who lives to the end than the hero who winds up dead.”

The Characters

🥰🤪💕💞🤩

Ah, this was my favorite part, as usual!

Alice is a really realistic main character, and I relate to her with all of the worrying about your academics and all of that, and I love that she wasn't perfect, which makes her incredibly relatable. She makes certain decisions that had me questioning her, but I can understand why she made them, because she was just trying to help her family, and speaking of which, I also loved her dedication to family.

Henry is my adorable little baby who I would protect with my LIFE. He was so sweet and sincere and cute and amazing and GAH why can't I meet anyone like him? 😭😭 He was so cute towards Alice and he's so smart and I always fall for the smart soft guys in books 😭

Chanel was also a great character, she was so nice and friendly and seems like she would make a great friend, but none of these characters are real which pains me to type out.

“I didn’t know you had such a praise kink.”

this cracked me up lmao

The Relationships

😍🥰😘🤩🥺

Henry and Alice are adorable and perfect and amazing and I would die for them.

that's all.

(but I will add, the slowburn in this was TORTURE. it took so long for them to kiss 😭)

I would say more but these two are too perfect for any words to describe.

Anywho, I'm very happy I'm out of my slump and I'm very happy I read this because I loved it so so much and I'm so glad I'm having a good luck with books lately (not counting a CERTAIN book)

4.8 stars (don't question me)

“And everything about this moment is so lovely and so fragile in its loveliness that I’m almost afraid to hold it. Afraid that the spell will break.”

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this was so cute and everything i needed ahh

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