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A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole

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licia92's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I opened this book without a clue what it was about at first and I was floored when I found out.   I absolutely loved it though.    It was beautiful.  I find it hard to write reviews without spoilers, but just know I highly recommend this book, just make sure you have a box of tissues rrady!!!

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ojudge's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I enjoyed this book a lot. It didn’t take me long to finish. I read it a lot quicker than I anticipated. The story itself is beautiful, heartbreaking, and enjoyable to read. However, it lost points in the rating because as enjoyable and beautiful a story it was, it was also cringey beyond belief. Some of the things said by the two main characters were just so crazy to me. I’m all for deep, passionate, and beautiful love. But there are lines where it turns from beautiful to cringey and over the top. It also lost points for the INCREDIBLY long chapters. However, still an amazing yet gut-wrenching read.

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bookishkamia26's review against another edition

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emotional relaxing sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Amazing read and I love how it was paced. Took me a long time bc I was in a slump but very emotional towards the end a great love story. 

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ollibolli's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective relaxing sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

Took me a really long time to read because of the small writing, but i liked it. It took me like a year to read it (big gaps in between reading sessions) because it was kinda boring and repetitive in the writing. Way to much dialogue. I feel like they ask and answer the same questions so many times. Its very cheesy, especially the two main characters. They are always in a super emotinal mood like in the way they talk to eachother. Never seem to lighten up. 

But i did enjoy finally finishing the book and it was very emotinal, i actually shed a few tears which i have never done while reading before. I would recommend this book if u like a lot of dialogue and romance and if youre a teenager like me. Actually its kinda cheesy even for me and im only 13 

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jessicaysutton's review against another edition

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I physically couldn’t because my mom died of cancer. I have cried this entire book. It’s so good but I am so sad and only made it 70 pages literally. Be prepared to cry and cry and cry. 

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bettymer91's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0


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andreyuhh's review against another edition

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emotional sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

0.25

“Well I have it on good authority that she wants a little more bad boy in her life”

I feel like this quote alone is enough for everyone to understand how cringe this book was. You’ll hear “baby” over a million times & it just feels so unauthentic for teenagers. I almost added it to my DNF list but I couldn’t bear to ruin my book streak lmao. I also listened to the audiobook and I must warn you to never ever listen to that. I had to listen to 4 different accents for 2 characters. 🙃

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bookish_limits's review

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adventurous challenging emotional sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I am so sorryyyyy, I really did push off on reading this book because of all the love it got. 
I just personally didn't like the non communication in this book. He was so good to her beyond reality, all she did was lie and hurt this poor man. I am sorry but I just didn't like how the love interest went. 

Here are my notes throughout 

Ch6
- why wouldn’t you wanna know where he stands. Stop avoiding him and see if he stood by his word and loves you like he did then 
Ch7
- Better not to tell him and pretend I wasn’t interested 🤮 let the man be, he loved you and you just MIA on him. You deserve the cold shoulder from him right now 
- Poppy mein?? Dude she ghosted you and your just gonna let her back in after her first sign of heartache. What about you and how you felt??
Ch8 
- seriously, you’re dying of a chronic disease and the man who loves you is just finding out. Wtf is your problem 🙄

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doey_zoe's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5


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blessed1124's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

You’re going to cry

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