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efratmaor's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Abandonment, Death, and Infertility
Moderate: Suicide, Terminal illness, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Car accident, and Cancer
Minor: Alcohol, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy
taliac's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
3.5
I don't think it is anywhere near as special or as 'strong' as the authors more recent work but still with a read of you are looking for a nice easy story.
Minor: Death, Suicide, Alcoholism, and Infertility
emma_sky's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Alcohol, Abandonment, and Terminal illness
Minor: Death of parent, Infertility, Miscarriage, Cancer, Suicide, and Vomit
dckate2004's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death, Grief, Car accident, and Suicide
Moderate: Cancer, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Infidelity
prism_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Infertility, and Medical content
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, Car accident, Infidelity, and Mental illness
Minor: Suicide and Pregnancy
mimamilli's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Moderate: Cancer, Infertility, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, and Car accident
janatoktok's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Infidelity, Cancer, Infertility, and Suicide
Moderate: Alcoholism
Minor: Car accident
ed_w's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Moderate: Alcohol, Terminal illness, Death, Chronic illness, Car accident, Suicide, and Infidelity
Minor: Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Drug abuse, Vomit, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, and Drug use
lauracollins096's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Cancer, Abandonment, Death, Alcoholism, Infertility, Infidelity, Suicide, Car accident, and Grief
Moderate: Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness
Minor: Xenophobia, Ableism, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Medical content
haleiyoung's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Some characters are irredeemable, which this book definitely has in my opinion, but there are characters who make huge mistakes and you can't help but feel for their situation, which this book also has (and just to make it clear, those who are irredeemable are not those I feel for because
My one critique would be about the number of parentheses and information dumping the author chose to keep in during the first few chapters. As the book progressed the words came much smoother, but in the beginning I felt like I was being bogged with a bunch of need to know information but presented in an ineloquent fashion.
Now here's a part with a spoiler
But I love the adoption trope in this book. Although I HATE when books or movies portray someone dumping their child onto an unwilling party, the way AJ accepts Maya into his home and loves her like he would his own daughter, and then Amelia doing the same when they get married is beautiful. I was adopted, and seeing it portrayed in such a way that sees AJ being seen as the legitimate dad and Amelia as the legitimate mom and not just the "adoptive parents" makes me heart so happy.
Moderate: Infertility, Suicide, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Death, Terminal illness, Abandonment, and Cancer
Minor: Racism and Car accident
Nothing is explained in explicit detail. There is some insinuation to sex, but nothing descriptive. Racism- there is a brief insensitive remark made to the main character and family Miscarriage and infertility- nothing explicit, but talk around it is fairly un-emotive and swept aside toxic relationship- not the main character's relationship, but his sister-in-laws Car accident- nothing graphic, but results in death