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readswithtayee's review against another edition
- 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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**Synopsis:** less you know, the better. Just know it’s a clean, YA, romance, sad, & about grief.
**Personal thoughts:** I really enjoyed this book. It was a beautiful story about love, family & grief. I loved the friendship with his cousin. Very heartfelt story!
**Spicy level:** 🌶️/5 | minimal romantic gestures
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Instagram: @readswithtayee
Moderate: Child death, Death, and Car accident
lailajm's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Child death and Grief
teddie_valetine98's review against another edition
- 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? No
4.5
Moderate: Child death, Death, and Car accident
maggieparedesauthor's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Death
rubyduller's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Car accident
Minor: Racism and Hate crime
nursebecks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Child death and Death
cinnamonghostie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Grief, Child death, Car accident, and Death
Moderate: Violence and Racism
dajaelizabeth's review against another edition
- 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
They had planned their whole life together. Julie and Sam both had to learn to let go of what they thought would happen.
I do feel for Sam. He was robbed of a future he thought he was going to have. Was he being a little selfish yes and in this situation, he had every right to be. He wanted to get the chance to have final moments with Julie and say goodbye to his girlfriend and family. He died suddenly and to him without reason. His final voicemail hurt to read.
Throughout this book, you knew the ending was coming the same way Julie did but you hoped that it wasn't that wrecking. And you know there are going to be a lot more things that he misses out on once that last phone call happens. Those phone calls were for him as much as they were for Julie. To me this was the perfect book about grief.
I cried throughout this book and there was a point where I thought the ending wouldn't be good and this was just another overhyped book. This book to me captured what I think a lot of people would feel if they thought they would spend the rest of their life with someone only to have them die before that life even got the chance to start.
Her not being able to go to her funeral and candlelight was something I could relate to. This might not be everyone's way of grieving but this is sometimes what it looks like. It wasn't over-dramatic like in movies sometimes this to me was the natural progression of things. The ending showed that she would never forget him, never fully let him go but she knew they both had to move on and say goodbye. And that is all this book was a final goodbye for them.
I am happy that Sam and Julie both got the goodbye they needed. Sam so that he could rest and Julie so that she could live. This is what it was about. It made me feel like I was going through their grief of living and dying with them.
This represented what to me a lot of people would do if they could call a loved one who died so they could say goodbye on their own terms.
So I would recommend this book but I will say that if you are anything like me this book with break your heart. I can say this is the first book that I think really altered my brain as the girls on TikTok say. This changed me for the better and also helped with my grief as well even though they have been gone for a while.
Graphic: Grief, Child death, and Death
Moderate: Racism
Minor: Car accident
charlotteschapter's review
- 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? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Death, Car accident, Grief, Child death, and Bullying
Moderate: Bullying, Car accident, Death, and Racism
Minor: Car accident, Death, and Racism
goldyyy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Death and Child death