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The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

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roussette31's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

3.5

This book was highly emotional, but I really liked it. The romance in it was super cute, and the character development was so well done on both sides.

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kiingchika's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad slow-paced

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

4.0

After reading the first two books, I was so eager for Quan to have a story of his own. This book, though, was so much more than that. It hit me in ways I wasn’t expecting, and I just love Anna. It was a lot emotionally, but worth it, and important, I think, to acknowledge.

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mariainestb's review against another edition

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challenging emotional sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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teatunesandtales's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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

5.0

Part fiction, part memoir. Thank you Helen Hoang for writing my story also.

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marleens's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

This is a tough one to review, because I feel like I went in with the wrong expectations. I wasn’t expecting full-on romcom vibes, but I definitely think that the first 2 books of the series were a lot more lighthearted than this 3rd book. I did absolutely love Anna and Quan, both as separate characters as well as their relationship. Their characters and the romance could have made this a five star read. But the heavy plot was such a big part of the story that it became a very tough read. This is of course a good thing if that was the intention of the author, and I do think she did a great job writing this (and I’m glad I read the author’s note at the end). But this book just made me sad and angry so often, which is not the reading experience I’m looking for in this genre.

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ninebookishlives's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted

5.0

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scarroll178's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

This book taught me a lot about autistic burnout and caregiver burnout, and for that I really appreciate it.

It was also written painfully badly in some places. The author tackles a lot of really serious topics in this book, but the pure level of cheese with which she writes about those topics is —

Ugh.

I respect that some of the things she talks about come from her own experience, but here’s the thing: I’m not critiquing those parts of the book. At all. Anna’s sections of the book are much stronger and more grounded than Quan’s sections. For instance, during one very emotionally intense part of the book, Quan talks about his pain in the most embarrassing, edge lord way possible.

I’m not gonna take the time to write the full quote, but he’s basically like “I want to break rules, break things, watch smoke blacken the sky. I crave the taste of pain. Nothing could rival this gaping sense of betrayal.” 💀💀💀

The sex scenes were also really boring, and normally that’s something I could force myself through, but in this book there’s a sex scene so bad it made me laugh out loud when I was reading it.

Anna is trying to apologize to Quan, and she decides the best way to make up for agreeing to marry another dude is to strip and masturbate for him, to show him how much she trusts him I guess??? Not what they were fighting about btw, there was never any question that Anna trusted Quan. The issue was that HE couldn’t trust HER anymore because SHE AGREED TO MARRY ANOTHER DUDE. The author delivers this scene without a hint of humor or irony. It’s all very serious and earnest, and that just makes it funnier tbh

Yeah… I just couldn’t take this book seriously. I really liked it at first, but it just got worse and worse as it went on. This is the first book in a really long time that I wish I had just put down without finishing, cause the beginning is so much better than the end.

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