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All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

15 reviews

marinabkat's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

rachaelwho's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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

Pacing was off for me. It took me a long time to get invested, and even once I had, the first act felt so long that I was surprised to find more acts beyond it. But the author had a lot to say. It's not 5 stars bc it's perfect, but because there's nothing worth faulting it for, if that makes sense. A very caring, thoughtful book. Excellent voice acting from the narrator.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug use, Incest, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Outing, Homophobia, Mental illness, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Lesbophobia, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Deportation, Fatphobia, and Sexual violence

readswithcocktails's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

This book is full of gorgeous prose, well developed characters, and powerful themes. Ultimately, though, it wasn't my cup of tea. I feel weird saying it's too literary, but I'm definitely a genre girl. I like my social commentary through futuristic scifi worlds and fantasy realms. I can see why a lot of people love it though. I appreciated this book and will definitely check out the author's next novel.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual violence, and Racism

Minor: Drug use and Drug abuse

suzyreadsbooks's review

emotional medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

such a roller coaster!! impressive writing & I really enjoyed listening to it. It does a good job of exploring second chances and learning how to let people in.
Things escalated so much as it got to the end and I think it could've benefited from 100 more pages and some additional time for character growth. 
I wanted the friendships to feel more solid than what we actually got. Tig was my favorite character and I felt annoyed by how they were just constantly put in the position of teaching Sneha, while Sneha made little digs made about Tig being Black, fat, and non-binary that just never really got corrected. I know this is a book about messy, imperfect people but there are times in the book when Sneha gives her perspective from the future and admits she was wrong, but never about Tig.
& I wanted to understand Marina's appeal but it never really clicked.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Deportation and Racism

Minor: Fatphobia and Transphobia

rahthesungod's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Xenophobia, Transphobia, Sexual violence, Racism, Drug abuse, and Deportation

While All This Could Be Different deals with a lot of difficult topics, no mention of potentially triggering topics is graphic