So Glad to Meet You - Lisa Super (ARC Kindle Edition)

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher, and author for an advance copy of this book.

"Isn't that the point of suicide? You have nothing left to say."

Actual rating is somewhere in the 3.5-3.75 range. The ending really worked for me.

So Glad to Meet You is a YA contemporary that follows two characters from third person perspectives. The gist of the story is that Daphne and Oliver are very different people with very different lives with the exception of one thing - Daphne's older sister used to date Oliver's older brother and they committed suicide together seven years ago. Both Daphne and Oliver, as well as their family dynamics, have changed to cope with this in whatever way they can, until one day Daphne finds what looks to be a bucket list created by Emily and Jason before their untimely deaths. Daphne brings it to Oliver and the two of them attempt to complete the list in their own way.

Part road-trippy, part high school drama, part romance, part teenage angst, So Glad to Meet You tackles tough subjects in a way that manages to convey the seriousness of the subject, but still keep a light-hearted fun feel to the book.

Biggest complaint would be that the book is marketed as LGBTQIA+, however that is an extremely small portion of the book...so small in fact, it was not introduced until 74% into it, and total time spent on the subject was maybe two pages if you put everything together. Smaller complaint is that I don't feel like Oliver's character was written super well. The general idea that he's a typical dude who never knows what he wants regarding girls (besides sex) until it's too late is there, but with what he went through, I feel like there should've been a lot more depth to him.

Trigger warnings for suicide and alcohol abuse.

So Glad to Meet You will be released on July 31, 2018 through Diversion Books.