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Kontakt alarmowy by Mary H.K. Choi

71 reviews

sineadsh's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful 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

4.5

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mmariericker's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted reflective 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

4.25

This was such a fast and sweet read. It’s marketed as YA but since she’s in college and he’s 23 I would consider this that newly-emerging sweet spot of New Adult. I really loved what this book tackled and look forward to reading more of her work in the future. Plus, Sam is just dreamy. No way around that.

“A female protagonist made the stories more inspiring than voyeuristic. It was so much fun to write about who you could be. From then on penny’s stories centered around women and girls. There wasn’t even a special trick. You wrote it exactly as you would for a guy, but you made pain thresholds higher since girls have to put up with more in the world and give them more empathy, which makes everything riskier.”

“The homework doesn’t end. It’s piles and piles of emotional homework forever if you ever want to qualify as a grown-up.”

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marisamidori's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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internationalreads's review against another edition

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emotional funny reflective 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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leffel's review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
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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mims_book_nook's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful 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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alenka's review against another edition

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emotional funny 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

Holy crap this book is so good, I didn't want to put it down. Sam and Penny vibrate on the same level of weird in a way that is just perfect, and I love that we're catching both in healing media res. Both have their own traumas to work through and Sam is just starting to really cope, whereas Penny is sort of caught in a particular stage of coping. Their initial moment of connection and Penny's luck in catching Sam in a low moment lets them ignite this beautiful spark not of romance, but of emotional need. They both need someone to talk to and process with and find that perfectly in each other. I loved it.

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spellboundchapters's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-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? Yes

3.5

1st read: December 2020 — 3.5 stars

2nd read: May 2022 — 3.5 stars

“Over the years, Penny inhaled the classics — Ready Player One, Dune, and Ender’s Game, though it wasn’t until she was introduced to Messiah, ironically from a guy who was the worst dude in the history of dudes, that she realized sci-fi didn’t have to be so… boy. (…) From then on Penny’s stories centered around women and girls. There wasn’t even a special trick. You wrote it exactly as you would for a guy, but you made pain thresholds higher since girls have to put up with more in the world and give them more empathy, which makes everything riskier.”

Yeppp, I still like it as much as I did the first time 🥺
Yes, Penny is deeply flawed, but I always find flawed characters way more interesting to follow, and I can see a lot of past me in her… I’m still unsure if it’s a good thing or not. 😂 And I love the character development she gets throughout the book! The moment where she bonds with Jude and Mallory at the beach is my favourite scene 🥰

I loved to witness Sam and Penny’s friendship/romance blossom, and Mary H.K. Choi writes teenagers/young adults so perfectly! I feel like authors often struggle to make their dialogs sound realistic, but she always nails it — they didn’t sound cheesy nor cringy at all, and neither did the text messages. I think a lot of us will resonate with the way that this book focuses on virtual relationships, and how you can sometimes be more yourself when talking to someone via messages rather than in person. (Or maybe that's just us socially awkward butterflies.)

“So yeah no IRL for me
Why break the fourth wall?”

“No point
We’re perfect in here”

I have nothing to say about Sam except that he’s perfect. And that I want to taste his pastries (yes, if you can bake you're automatically very attractive to me).

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ki_stars's review against another edition

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reflective medium-paced

Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

I enjoy books that present the narration in different ways, so I did enjoy the inclusion of their texts and how the chapters changed vantage points. I found myself having a hard time getting invested in the characters' intersecting storylines and was much more interested when they would go their separate ways. Also, there were random comments in the book that kept making me go ???? I would read them and think "man, these people suck." Ultimately, I found myself speed reading at times because it was just by and large not an enjoyable read.

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allzen_nochill's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

You ever start a book from the library and after getting sucked in by the first few chapters you go "man, I'm DEFINITELY buying this"? Emergency Contact is one of those books for me. Sam and Penny just folded me into their world so easily. I love a complicated, defensive female protagonist and Penny delivered in spades. Were there threads that could have been woven together a little tighter? Absolutely. But trust me, I won't remember that, I'll just remember that I motored through this book in two days and it made me take longer than usual lunch breaks because I didn't want to put it down.

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