If you like realistic slice of life stories, goofy faces and a real slow burn, this is the one for you! I started After School Lessons for Unripe Apples to fill the hole that Cheese in the Trap left in my heart, and it doesn’t disappoint. The plot takes a while to unravel but it still manages to be engaging. The characters’ life as they go through their last year of middle school is believable and relatable, with undone homework, bad grades, not-so-understanding parents, and the late 90’s make a great background. The love story is not super central, this is first and foremost a storyabout friendship and growing up together! The author does a great job of pacing developments so that they make sense for a middle schooler too so we have fights and misunderstandings that simmer down fairly quickly 💫

I would definitely recommend ASLFUA to anyone and I’m sure if you pick this up you’ll binge read in a weekend 🙊