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A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole

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melissa08's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing 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? It's complicated

5.0

Slightly predictable but it’s a beautiful heartbreaking YA book.

A heartbreaking beginning , middle and ending.

Rune and Poppy’s story was very much like The Fault In Our Stars but based in America.

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destinynichole11's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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santanalang's review against another edition

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emotional sad tense fast-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

4.0

There needs to be a trigger warning or a caution on this book. I saw it on booktok and was like cute another cute book I’ll just pick it up…..no. No do not read this unless you’re ready to be on the worst emotional roller coaster ever and cry for 75% of the book and swoon over Rune for the whole 100% of the book and wish he got so much more out of life than what he got. Our boy deserves so much more

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chellery's review against another edition

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emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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jessicaharleee's review against another edition

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emotional sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I loved this so much! It was beautiful and heartbreaking.

Poppy is the perfect protagonist and I love how deep her relationship is with Rune.
The fact that this was largely inspired by One Direction songs is obviously a bonus.
The scenes in New York were stunning and emotional.
The way Rune treated his parents was just A LOT and was pretty uncalled for. Both families seemed pretty financially comfortable, not to mention Poppy’s aunt is a flight attendant. I have to imagine they would’ve let Rune and Poppy visit each other every so often.
Rune never kissing another person and dying only 11 years after Poppy just seems impossible and tainted this story a bit for me.