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3.28 AVERAGE
3.28 AVERAGE
emotional
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:
No
I received an Arc from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I was really surprised by how much i liked Epically Earnest! I've been in such a bad reading slump lately that nothing seems to make me want to read, but I devoured this in a single sitting!
I loved how quirky it was, and that made it rather fun to read for me. But also I love a good LGBT Rom-Com, that is mostly lighthearted. With only a few moments of less lightheartedness when the MC deals with the effects of harassment and the abandonment of the her when she was a baby.
I'm not gonna deny that the whole book I felt like I was waiting for something bad or sad to happen and it didn't, though that isn't a bad thing. This book didn't need it and I think that might be why I liked it so much.
Keeping this review pretty short I really liked this and would definitely be interested in reading more by Molly Horan.
I was really surprised by how much i liked Epically Earnest! I've been in such a bad reading slump lately that nothing seems to make me want to read, but I devoured this in a single sitting!
I loved how quirky it was, and that made it rather fun to read for me. But also I love a good LGBT Rom-Com, that is mostly lighthearted. With only a few moments of less lightheartedness when the MC deals with the effects of harassment and the abandonment of the her when she was a baby.
I'm not gonna deny that the whole book I felt like I was waiting for something bad or sad to happen and it didn't, though that isn't a bad thing. This book didn't need it and I think that might be why I liked it so much.
Keeping this review pretty short I really liked this and would definitely be interested in reading more by Molly Horan.
Really sweet and fun. I do wish the author had embraced the sheer goofiness and the ludicrous energy of coincidence from the source material, but it's not really one of the goals of The Importance of Being Earnest to be "believable", so I see why when translating the bones into a cute, modern day, young adult romance, she did not. Still plenty funny, though!
There was something about this book that just didn't sit right with me. Several scenes made me very uncomfortable and actually made my skin crawl which is obviously not something a contemperary romance should be doing.
I also found the characters to be unrealistic. They all felt like pick me girls which was extremely annoying to read. I was really bummed cause I wanted to enjoy this book but I just couldn't get passed the unsettling scenes and the "lol so random" characters. It made the whole book just feel so very fake.
I also found the characters to be unrealistic. They all felt like pick me girls which was extremely annoying to read. I was really bummed cause I wanted to enjoy this book but I just couldn't get passed the unsettling scenes and the "lol so random" characters. It made the whole book just feel so very fake.
I received an ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Going into this book I had zero expectations. I thought the cover was cute, and the idea of a retelling of the Importance of Being Earnest intrigued me, but that was it. Right off the bat, this book is 100% a character study, it is not plot driven at all since there really isn’t much of a main plot. This book is a bunch of subplots strung together. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, however I found it a bit boring. There wasn’t any conflict for the characters to over come, just new settings for the characters to say snarky one liners to each other. I liked the romance, it was very sweet, although it too was a bit bland as there was no conflict/obstacles for them to overcome. They just ended up together and that was that. Another other aspect I liked was the discussion of adoption trauma and Jane’s feelings around whether she wants to meet her bio family or not. Adoption trauma is a very real thing that tends to get swept under the rug, so it was nice to see it discussed so openly and so well in a YA book. The message of this book is learning to be true to yourself, and I think the author accomplishes that, but in a bland way. This book was like eating chicken without any seasoning except a pinch of salt. 3/5 stars.
Going into this book I had zero expectations. I thought the cover was cute, and the idea of a retelling of the Importance of Being Earnest intrigued me, but that was it. Right off the bat, this book is 100% a character study, it is not plot driven at all since there really isn’t much of a main plot. This book is a bunch of subplots strung together. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, however I found it a bit boring. There wasn’t any conflict for the characters to over come, just new settings for the characters to say snarky one liners to each other. I liked the romance, it was very sweet, although it too was a bit bland as there was no conflict/obstacles for them to overcome. They just ended up together and that was that. Another other aspect I liked was the discussion of adoption trauma and Jane’s feelings around whether she wants to meet her bio family or not. Adoption trauma is a very real thing that tends to get swept under the rug, so it was nice to see it discussed so openly and so well in a YA book. The message of this book is learning to be true to yourself, and I think the author accomplishes that, but in a bland way. This book was like eating chicken without any seasoning except a pinch of salt. 3/5 stars.
Navigating her senior year, and her not so secret crush on her best friend’s cousin, Jane didn’t plan on adding finding her long lost family to her to-do list. She’s always felt loved by her adoptive family, and if she occasionally wonders what happened for her birth parents to abandon her in a NYC subway, so what? One ping on an ancestry site later and Janey has to decide is opening the door to the past worth it.
Loosely based on The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Epically Earnest follows Jane’s journey alongside her best friend Algie, her cousin Cecil (who is hopelessly in love with Algie, despite his playboy ways) and Gwen, the most beautiful girl Jane has ever seen. I loved their friend group, filled with double dates, sneaky setups, and an epic promposal. Overall this book balances on the line between rom com and self-discovery, and pulls it off without ever getting too angsty.
Loosely based on The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Epically Earnest follows Jane’s journey alongside her best friend Algie, her cousin Cecil (who is hopelessly in love with Algie, despite his playboy ways) and Gwen, the most beautiful girl Jane has ever seen. I loved their friend group, filled with double dates, sneaky setups, and an epic promposal. Overall this book balances on the line between rom com and self-discovery, and pulls it off without ever getting too angsty.
It was boring. It was so boring, there was no conflict and none of the plot lines ever went anywhere. This book was short and there was truly no substance to the small amount of pages to be had. 2 Stars because the writing was ok, the content itself just put me to sleep.
pleasant read but ultimately felt...hollow. the characters and plot all came across as very surface-level. good if you're looking for something light to speed-read, but lacking in depth overall.
4 stars for the quality of the writing; 2 for the structure of the actual novel.
4 stars for the quality of the writing; 2 for the structure of the actual novel.