The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The background is purple. The title “Fresh” is coming out of a tipped over red solo cup at the top. It is written in italics and looks like colourful liquid. The author’s name “Margot Wood” is written in small, light purple caps in the top left corner. In the lower right corner, a quote from New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman reads “Fun and funny, sexy and sex positive” in small light purple writing. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Sexual Assault
• Alcohol
• Drug Use
• Swearing
• Sexual Content

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Summary:

A hilarious and vulnerable coming-of-age story about the thrilling new experience–and missteps–of a girl’s freshman year of college.

Some students enter their freshman year of college knowing exactly what they want to do with their lives. Elliot McHugh is not one of those people. But picking a major is the last thing on Elliot’s mind when she’s too busy experiencing all that college has to offer–from dancing all night at off-campus parties, to testing her RA Rose’s patience, to making new friends, to having the best sex one can have on a twin-sized dorm room bed. But she may not be ready for the fallout when reality hits. When the sex she’s having isn’t that great. When finals creep up and smack her right in the face. Or when her roommate’s boyfriend turns out to be the biggest a-hole. Elliot may make epic mistakes, but if she’s honest with herself (and with you, dear reader), she may just find the person she wants to be. And maybe even fall in love in the process . . . Well, maybe.

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Notes:

Content warnings taken from author’s website, linked here.

Apparently, this is loosely inspired by Jane Austen’s Emma.

There is an audiobook.

There is an ebook/Kindle edition.

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Archivist Comments:

The note I initially wrote on this book said “slow burn, sapphic college romance, that follows a college student dealing with college things”. Now that I’ve done a bit more research into it, a wlw romance is present in the book, and, by the sounds of it, there’s a sort of enemies-to-lovers trope as well. Some people have said that they weren’t a fan of the fact that they felt the MC fell too much into the “promiscuous bisexual” stereotype.

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