Week 21 Review: If You Could See the Sun

From Goodreads:

No secret is safe.

Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school, where she's the only scholarship student in a sea of über-wealthy classmates. But she has a plan: be top of the class, attend a prestigious university, secure a killer job, and finally lift her family out of poverty.

Then her parents drop a bomb—they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship. But that's the least of Alice's problems because she has started uncontrollably turning invisible. As in completely, physically invisible.  

Alice realizes there's an upside to her strange new power—unparalleled access to the secrets of China's most rich and influential teens. Soon, Alice has a new plan: offer her invisibility services to find out what her classmates want to know—for a price.

But between balancing schoolwork, a growing relationship with academic-rival-turned-business-partner Henry, and stealing secrets, things start to fall through the cracks. As the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if helping her family is worth losing her conscience—or even her life. 

My Review:
Oh, this was a really wonderful read! I could really see what Alice was feeling, what she was going through. To feel invisible, even after all the work that she was putting into her school career. Though I was apprehensive about her monetizing her ability. 

I loved her relationship with Henry, that they were so competitive, and that everything just came so easily to him, while she had to work hard for her good grades. So yeah, things are pretty intense between the two of them, and it was just so cute! 

There's a few questions of morality in this book, what with her ability and all. Oh what's right and what's wrong-and how far she'll go to earn enough money to be able to stay at this school. So I really enjoyed that conversation. 

The way things wrapped up was really great. I honestly thought that something was going to go wrong before then, so that they made it that far was pretty great. And I really enjoyed the lessons learned, and were we left them all! It was a really satisfying ending! 

I loved reading this book, it was a fantastic read, and I can't wait to read more by Ann Liang! 

Author: Ann Liang
Read: May 23rd, 2022
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a SAC 2022 Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Inkyard Press
Expected Publication: October 11th 2022

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars