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My Week with Him

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I absolutely adored the cover, and have looked at all the other books by this author and to my amazement they are all so joyful and colourful.

She is constantly at war with her mother and after an epic row erupts involving her sister Vae she is determined to quit Texas and go to. I loved the time-keeping, it would've been very easy to shove too much into a week but the time-stamps and the way events unfolded was done very skilfully, which made it read like just a very busy week! At one point I was almost rooting against their relationship because I was worried she would give up the audition for him but I really shouldn't have worried because the way that was handled was flawless.With a passion for Black social psychology, she moved out of the countryside to attend the University of Texas in Austin, where she still resides. This is a story of love; romantic, familial and all the complexities that comes with such a big emotion. A lot of parents have not healed from their own childhood trauma, then they traumatize their children the same way. This book is a modern friends to lovers story, which also consists of life lessons for the characters.

I loved how the 2 characters gravitated towards each other and not wanting to tell each other they had feels for each other for fearing they would be rejected again. I love how this author includes family dynamics into her stories so flawlessly because it really makes these characters feel real. This book handled that topic so well, because I despised Nikki’s mom until they finally had that conversation. I would honestly love to see a sequel where we follow Nikki in her budding music career and to see her try to balance it with her relationship with Mal.Nikki the main character has such a challenging relationship with her mum, which is so well written and portrayed that at times it is really painful to read. The situation was never portrayed as all good or all bad, giving space to all of Nikki's complicated emotions about it.

In high school, she challenged herself with to-do lists full of risk-taking items like 'hug a random boy' and 'eat a cricket,' which inspired her debut novel, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry. She's both vulnerable and resilient, she takes care of her little sister but also needs to be taken care of; she exhausts herself trying to protect her heart from disappointment but still secretly kindles a hope that things will change.Goffney’s ability to delve into such complex and nuanced themes to create a compelling, three dimensional story always has me in awe—and My Week With Him is no different. I especially loved seeing him and his parents support her in dealing with her family issues, while never overstepping. Taking a slightly darker tone than her previous books, the story centres around eighteen year old Nikki and the toxic relationship with her abusive mother.

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