If He Had Been with Me: The Tiktok Sensation

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I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever.

Autumn does not get her license, but she benefits from Jamie receiving his as well as Finny, who not only gets his license but an expensive sports car from his father.That is mental illness: the constant rewind and fast forward of feeling too much and not enough, the past being as palpable as the present. My mother married her high school sweetheart and now spends her time in a seemingly loveless marriage to a man who’s absent most of the time. I keep thinking about Finn and Autumn and how all of the behind the scenes of their relationship contributed to the ending, AND THAT ENDING? Autumn’s coming-of-age is sensitively chronicled, with a wide range of experiences and events shaping her character.

She and Finny have been friends since birth because their mothers are best friends and Finny’s mother, Angelina, lives next door.Sorry but we went through all that just to enjoy them for like 10 pages and then it got ripped from us in the worst possible way. We watch her relationship with Jaime continue and her bonds with her "group" of friends get stronger. But the last twenty minutes of this book had me upping the rating due to how much this story touched me. I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again. Finn was the shy boy who was utterly talented when it came to sports but also a very caring boy which will make complete sense how things came to by at the end.