I love Brigid Kemmerer. I truly do with all my heart. She can put so much life into every single one of her characters in a way I’ve rarely seen in ~300 page novels. She takes stereotypes in her contemporary books: the brooding loner boy, the girl who is apprehensive of said boy, etc., and gives them such depth. The side characters in Call it What You Want are so great. Ex-best friends, pregnant sisters, teachers scammed out of retirement, this book has it all. I’m hard to impress with one-liners but I laughed out loud quite a few times at this book just because the characters were being so much like themselves, and that just speaks to how well Brigid Kemmerer develops her characters. Y’all already know I stan my queen I don’t need to continue