and so a month later...

Justinne Horteza
Oct 3, 2020
2 min read

My blog has become a once a month thing na T_T

I have no excuse this time because all I’ve been up to has been (still) anime series, but oh whale!! We’re back! This month, I’m gonna *try* to put up at least 2, this and We are the Ants (hopefully), but I won’t make promises lol.

Anyways, before anything else, I just wanna say, just like in my previous review, it’s been a while since I read this book (except the last chapter which I finished last night because I’ve been putting it off for literal DAYS), and so my thoughts are pretty all over the place so bear with me hehe.

Oh and stream Lovesick Girls :)

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

Okay to be honest, I don’t have much to say about this book. BUT it’s good—actually, it’s great! Not one of my all-time faves, but it’s, for sure, up there. I just don’t know what I want to say about it.

The plot is pretty simple, our main character, Marin leaves her town one abrupt night and never looks back. Then her best friend, Mabel comes to visit her over winter break as other students on campus leave for the holidays. The reason why she left was vaguely explained and that’s something that just wants you to keep going (or maybe it’s just me because I’m nosy haha).

I guess the reason why I don’t have much to say about the book is because how it’s not plot driven and it focuses more on the character’s feelings and her thoughts which I feel like are things you need to FEEL in a book, not write a review on.

After reading a good handful of books (more than I expected from myself because I’m a pretty lazy reader), I’ve felt many things through a book, but I never felt lonely because of one. I’ve felt mad, happy, excited, even cried (literally sobbed and balled my eyes out), but I never felt so lonely because of a book—until We Are Okay.

how my notes on We Are Okay looks like HAHA

Our main character is alone, literally and figuratively, as the story kicks off. And I felt it through my bones—I’m not even exaggerating. I cannot put to words how painful the loneliness I felt through what Marin was going through and I’m not trying to romanticize that in any way, but huge *huge* props to the author with how she did that.

Another thing I wanna add is how even through all the struggles one goes through, this book tells you how it’ll all be okay in time and I just greatly appreciate that.