12.7k reviews for:

The Charm Offensive

Alison Cochrun

4.19 AVERAGE

emotional hopeful lighthearted 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

this book was perfect i was literally crying my eyes out
emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

what an absolute god send of a story. so unbelievably happy for queer romance that breaks the mold in more ways than one.
funny lighthearted 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
adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-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
challenging emotional funny inspiring 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
emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-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
funny hopeful lighthearted 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: No

Yk what this love story was actually so sweet and I love the queerification of the bachelor however I was sooooo icked by the didactic style -overtly, repeatedly educating readers about the characters identities (first gen, depression, neurodiversity, OCD, panic disorder, queer, demisexual, etc yes these are all just the 2 main characters) and also about other stuff that they felt like preaching about, like a very tumblr core sexuality and mental health crash course 
And they do it so often 😭 every time I started to get into the story they pulled me right out of it with asexuality 101 or something like that 

amazing. now give me a-spin off about daphne