Reviews with content warning for Abandonment - Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

every book i've read by Talia i've loved and it was no different for this one. i love her take and honesty on chronic illness / mental illness - especially as someone who lives with one.

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lindseyhall44's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted 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

5.0

In my opinion, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute was a perfect romcom. Talia Hibbert can do no wrong, and her signature humor and wit is all over these pages. Seeing a black love story like this made my heart so incredibly happy!!

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salomegf's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted 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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kyrstin_p1989's review

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

3.5

I loved her other books but this one was more of a slow burn for me initially. I ended up enjoying it by the end. It’s a really adorable friends to enemies to lovers and coming of age all wrapped up in one. Like in Hibbert’s other novels, the characters are well-written, distinctive, and so very loveable.

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bzliz's review

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emotional funny lighthearted fast-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

4.0

This book was in fact Highly Cute and made for a perfect palate cleanser as I’m reading some heavier books as well. Talia Hibbert always delivers adorable characters and she really captured the feeling of teen love here. The supporting cast wasn’t super fleshed out but Celine and Bradley felt so real to me. It’s hard to toe the line between gritty realism and YA romance but I think Hibbert did a damn good job.

I’d hesitate to call this enemies to lovers- can someone really be your enemy if you have to trade witty barbs while sitting next to each other in Philosophy class?- so I’ll call it ex-friends to friends to lovers instead. I don’t know if there’s a tropey name for “school age people who have to do an activity outside of school so they have a reason to be away from their parents for plot to happen but they still ultimately get to be young and innocent” but if that exists, this is a perfect example of it.

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becksusername's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted 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

3.5

Fun, cute, PG (thank god)

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seregelda's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

I might have DNFed this book in the first couple chapters if I hadn't loved a previous book by this author. I HATE conspiracy theories (which is the main character's thing), and there were some other turn-offs early on. This book was rather clunky and not as good as her adult book "Get a Life, Chloe Brown." I'm not sure why the author had so much trouble making this book likeable. I will be continuing her adult series, but I'm very unimpressed with this one.

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