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one thing i REALLLLYYYY hate about the end of tgb is the way everyone was basically best friends with the hawthornes and avery like in WHAT UNIVERSE is knox being invited to javery's wedding when 1. he's not even that close to the hawthornes he was always closer to GIGI if anything he's an honorary grayson and 2. he's not even alisa's plus one cuz THEY ARENT TOGETHER

and like look lyra can be closer to the hawthornes and avery for all i care but she and avery had one of the most buttfuck driest forced friendship convos ive ever seen in the history of jlb books and ive read 15 of jlb's books 4 of which contain a beautiful found family where everyone actually has a genuine connection and something that connects them. what IVE SEEN is lyra having more chemistry with ROHAN (even tho yes he has chemistry with everyone) and SAVANNAH and even GIGI from their small little interactions (even tho she also has chemistry with everyone)

plus like i mentioned with the something that connects them, gigi and lyra both mention being underestimated and that's also something that can connect them AND gigi and lyra are both whimsy asf like i KNOW these two can bond over some hobby. and that whole thing she told grayson with the "stop trying to protect her (savannah)" in gr that's EXACTLY lyra's thing too with secrets and protection and stuff

AND IN WHAT UNIVERSE is ZELLA of all people sending AVERY a wedding dress since uh when did zella gaf about avery like that like maybe a congratulations on your wedding card but A DRESS?? if anything she'll send savannah a fuckass dress on rohan and savannah's fuckass wedding day cause look at her "you are not nothing to savannah grayson" "you know i never did take you for a coward rohan" (her final push to get rohan to do something about savannah btw)

AAAAAND DONT GET ME STARTED ON EVE since uh WHEN did yall give a double doggy style flying fuck about eve and WDYM EVE TALKED TO AVERY BUT NOT SLATE. AVERY. AND NOT HER BODYGUARD THAT WAS BASICALLY HER SIBLING WHO SHE BRAIDED THE HAIR OF HIS DYING MOTHER??? the guy she made her SOLE HEIR??? not even one convo???? just some closure for slate?? but NOOO everything is about avery avery avery omfg

and ALSO now i think im just being petty help but in what universe are rohan and savannah getting thaaat close to the hawthornes. slate ok i understand cause gigi's attached to the hawthornes and avery and slate would get close to the hawthornes just for gigi but rohan and savannah?? since when did they care😭😭 especially when savannah didn't spend a lot of time with the hawthornes either cuz ik gigi did during the time frame of tgb and off page between tbh and tgg but savannah didnt spend a single second with them bruh she was in college and she resented avery and grayson and she was with rohan (and co.) for like 70% of her time in tgb and then 20% in her own home and 10% somewhere else. literally even brady would be closer to her atp. or knox. also the line in rohan's pov that was like "Rohan didn’t know what it was like to have a family, to have brothers, but just standing there, looking from Hawthorne to Hawthorne, he could almost imagine it." yes i copy and pasted it BYE it felt so forced bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye i actually actively ignored that line's existence

if all this felt natural i wldve been like oh ok fine whatever but IT DOESN'T the closest pairing of lyra's with one of the hawthornes+adjacents+love interests that i actually felt was probably libby but i actually dont even rmb either that was how dry it was lol or maybe it's just cuz neither of them are my faves but yk. my point still stands that all of this feels so fucking forced.