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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
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
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book had me in tears in the best way. Sad but heartwarming. Coming into yourself and owning who you are and what’s happened to you but not letting it define you at the end of the story. Best Pride Month pick!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Death of parent
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
sad
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
emotional
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
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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
adventurous
emotional
funny
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I bought this book as a blind book date and it was marketed as a sapphic roadtrip romance comedy... Let me just tell you this book was that but somehow not even at all. I'd bought it for the premise of romance, but what actually drew me in was Joe's story. A queer man in his 60's diagnosed with cancer and dying who wants to travel from Washington state to Maine before he passes, and he recruits two of his former students to make the trip with him.
His "death trip" journey was deeply poignant and filled with such depth of coming to terms with death and the process of dying and what it means to be alive. It was deeply moving the conversations with Joe and his approach to dying, and the final chapters absolutely ripped my heart to shreds.
I honestly think this book would have been better with less or a different type of romance. I genuinely felt like the two main interests Logan and Rosemarydidn't suit each other even with all the soul searching. Sometimes opposites don't always work out and it felt to me like at their core, they were too different to have realistically ended up together and working out. The back and forth was tiring all because of a kiss from when they were kids they literally just never talked through and I felt that their conversations were not realistic when they spoke of their feelings. I also found much of their romance to be cringey and not really my taste, but maybe I just prefer a different sapphic dynamic. I genuinely think Joe's story saved this book's plot.
I would recommend less as a romance and honestly more as a novel on the realities of loving someone dying and the ways we get through that.
His "death trip" journey was deeply poignant and filled with such depth of coming to terms with death and the process of dying and what it means to be alive. It was deeply moving the conversations with Joe and his approach to dying, and the final chapters absolutely ripped my heart to shreds.
I honestly think this book would have been better with less or a different type of romance. I genuinely felt like the two main interests Logan and Rosemary
I would recommend less as a romance and honestly more as a novel on the realities of loving someone dying and the ways we get through that.
I feel like a lot of contemporary romance/fiction books these days have a grief component for added depth/relatability but this one seemed especially sad!
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
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
This was a beautiful story, full of found family, love, and letting go. It was funny and sweet, and will stick with me for a while.
However,I really, truly, could have gone without the numerous descriptions of someone's mouth being described like a cat's butt. I just. Why so many????
That aside, I really enjoyed this one!
However,
That aside, I really enjoyed this one!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness
Moderate: Death of parent