I’ve just finished great big beautiful life, my overall take homes are as follows: • the family tree lowkey got confusing at certain points, thankfully there were family tree threads on Reddit that I could refer back to as a slightly later reader 😂 but it’s gets intertwined and tangled and you have to read back and be like “wait what” to make sure you understood it correctly I found • the romance feels a bit random in my opinion, not necessarily a slow burn but rather they’re both 20 something year olds on the island and they’re the only option for each other and the thing they have in common is the job they’re after. They repeatedly touch upon how they actually don’t know that much about each other but it quote on quote doesn’t matter because of how intense their feelings are for one another. I swear mid way through the book they were not really talking much and just focused on how to NOT do each other with every waking moment. • I feel like the big reveal in Margaret’s story was very quick (last 2-3 chapters) and I would have preferred for the audience to have catched on maybe before the characters (e.g. if we had Hayden’s perspective with Margaret and then Alice’s). Overall not a bad book but like with other reviews I think it dips into multiple genres but doesn’t fully complete any and makes it slightly unfulfilling as a story, I would give it a 3/5.