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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
reflective
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
adventurous
challenging
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:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
funny
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:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
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
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I don't know how a death roadtrip works as a romcom, but holy crap it does! This book is so emotional, fun, and full of perfectly described settings I wanted to be in with the characters. Logan and Rosemary are now beloved characters who will stay in my head for a long time. Also, the care with which Logan treats Rosemary as they begin their inevitable crash back together is just truly spectacular and I could reread those chapters over and over.
emotional
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
I. Loved. This. Book. The way it explores grief, dying, queer joy, and chosen family is wonderful. I am also a sucker for road trip books, and this one was great. The only reason I’m knocking half a star off is that the conflict between Rosemary and Logan felt quite forced at times. Protect Remy and Joe at all costs ❤️
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment
Minor: Alcoholism
adventurous
emotional
funny
relaxing
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
I didn't like as much as her other books that I've read, but I appreciate what the author was going for with these two characters. I just think the millennial angst and constantly proving that not everyone is a bigot was a little much for me.
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
sad
tense
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
absolutely fantastic. the author describes this as 'sapphic road trip about death' and yeah, that is what it is. (there is a very clear warning in the front of the book about this - this book deals with off screen death of a father, and on-screen death of parental figure). Rosemary and Logan take their old English teacher on a road trip to his final resting place, while he's actively dying of cancer, and along the way, come to terms with and resolve their own shared past and history, and fall in love, and work out how to go forwards. they also come to terms with Joe dying, and his death. I cried so much.
what I really appreciate about Joe's dying and his death, is that once they did make it to the final destination, it wasn't an immediate 'now they're there, and he dies right away'. at the same time it wasn't drawn out - it was just given space. the book felt perfectly paced - frantic and anxious in the beginning, then it started mellowing out, with occasional spikes of interpersonal drama, and then it was allowed to wind down. it's not often that I say about romance novels that they are beautiful, but this one was, and I love it very much.
Alison Cochrun is now an auto-buy author - I loved her first book, and while I had some issues with her second one, I did enjoy that one too, and this one is just phenomenal. I can't wait to see what she'll do next.
what I really appreciate about Joe's dying and his death, is that once they did make it to the final destination, it wasn't an immediate 'now they're there, and he dies right away'. at the same time it wasn't drawn out - it was just given space. the book felt perfectly paced - frantic and anxious in the beginning, then it started mellowing out, with occasional spikes of interpersonal drama, and then it was allowed to wind down. it's not often that I say about romance novels that they are beautiful, but this one was, and I love it very much.
Alison Cochrun is now an auto-buy author - I loved her first book, and while I had some issues with her second one, I did enjoy that one too, and this one is just phenomenal. I can't wait to see what she'll do next.