I have no idea how to feel about this book. I think it was an ok read. I really enjoyed the character's writing personality and how passionate she was about her writing and storytelling, but it seemed to me that the author wanted to tell two different stories in one book and then just gave up along the way. The pacing was super slow and it is under 300 pages. I figured I would fly through this in a day or two and it took me 5 days to read this. I was bored most of the time and the characters were confusing and annoying.
We follow Laila through her senior year of high school, mostly her creative writing class. She is obsessed with this sci-fi show called The Rest and she writes sci-fi. It doesn't tell us in the book if she is creating her own stories, or if she is writing fan fiction. The only person she shows her work to is her creative writing teacher who suddenly gets killed off and the substitute teacher that gets brought in is an award-winning author who definitely has no place in a classroom. She does not do well to teach the class anything about the writing craft and she does not critique the student's work, automatically failing every student including Laila.
This is an LGTBQIA+ novel.
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