#tckas

yes yes yes i love ezra

he knows that ellery thinks that he's silly for always believing in sadie but in his mind if he can't believe in his mom then... who can he believe in?

he's a big fan of the great british bake off (he loves the juxtaposition of the intense bakes and the incredibly helpful contestants)

he used to watch reruns in california when he and ellery would wait up for sadie to come home

his grandmother teaches him to cook during his senior year and it makes him feel so powerful

he never has to resort to microwave mac & cheese again

he discovers a love for baking pretty soon after he learns to cook and he makes great pastries

he gets on really well with declan

i think he feels really responsible for ellery because she's always moody and he has to be sunny to make sure that she doesn't turn into the next sadie and declan knows what it's like to protect his sibling from things that they aren't ready to deal with

ellery never really bonds with her half siblings but ezra loves them

and they love him

he's such a doting uncle

he instills a love for rock music into his nephew and his half sister is jokingly annoyed about it

he grows his hair out again after a few months of living in echo ridge because he finally feels happy again

he actually reaches out to katrin after the dust settles and writes her a really long email about how he understands the pressure of wanting to make parents happy and he hopes that she is doing okay and that she eventually learns that she's her own person separate of who her father expected her to be

katrin actually responds and they become something similar to penpals

ezra doesn’t go to college

he works for an indie radio station in burlington

he always thought that he would move back to california but he loves vermont so much

and he gets to be near ellery 

he never talks about it but he has always been shaken by the death of his aunt -- just like ellery he can’t imagine being forced to live a life without his twin

he swears off romance while he tries to get his own radio station but the guy he works with in burlington wears elbow patch cardigans and is adorably terrified of rock music and ezra falls in love right on the spot

ez and mia stay best friends for their entire lives

spoilers obviously

i guessed the final line of tckas like… one chapter into the book because it literally says “two homecoming queens” and sadie was the homecoming queen so i was like ? yeah it was obviously supposed to be sadie. i didn’t even think it was a reveal like i literally assumed the entire town would guess that they had been mixed up. also guessed it was peter bc he was creepy as hell, but i did think katrin would have a bigger role than she did

oouil i guessed the simon suicide but not all the moving pieces like janae and jake and how it all fit together

oouin i guessed that it was phoebe’s sister because i mean…obviously?? but i never guessed the owen reveal that had me SHOOK

and you’ll be the death of me i did not guess a single thing—i mean except for the fact that lara was involved somehow but that was a pretty easy one. everything else came flying out of left field 😭😭

books read in 2019 - 3 / ? ↳ two can keep a secret by karen m. mcmanus

You have been warned!!!!!

Some of my favourite bits from Two Can Keep A Secret.

This shit took a quick fucking turn and I love it.

For most of the book it was like “ok this person did it probably involved with this person.” And then it just did a fucking 180 like SIKE BITCH IT WAS DADDY.