This book is easily one of my favorites of the year -- I absolutely adored it. If You Still Recognise Me has SO much representation when it comes to gender, sexuality, race, and age and it all feels genuine. I loved reading about Ada's journey becoming comfortable with herself and working through her past toxic relationship. I also thought that the way both platonic and romantic love were represented was really beautiful. Read this book!

This summer, Elsie is finally going to confess her feelings to her longtime—and long-distance—crush. Ada’s fanfics are to die for, and she just gets Elsie like no one else. That is, until Joan, Elsie’s childhood best friend, literally walks back into her life and slots in like she had never moved away to Hong Kong and never ignored Elsie’s dozens of emails and letters.

Then Ada mentions her grandmother’s own long-lost pen pal (and maybe love?), a woman who once lived only a train ride away from Elsie’s Oxford home, and Elsie gets the idea for the perfect grand gesture. But as her plan to reunite the two older women ignites a summer of repairing broken bonds, Elsie starts to wonder if she, too, can recover the things she’s lost…

With a beautifully earnest teen voice, a light epistolary element, and a dash of fandom, this wistful and delightful debut is a love letter to queer coming-of-age, finding community, and finding yourself.
A beautifully written LGBTQIA+ romance. Elsie is such a cute character and I loved the grand gesture idea
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed are my own

I wanted to like this and felt that while the premise was great, the overall execution of the plot itself and the characterizations of several of the cast didn't do the novel justice.