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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
such an adorable book, loved every single short story and all the characters, restored my faith in love, all such good authors with amazing storytelling capabilities
I normally like these cute YA anthologies but only a couple of stories in this one were worth reading to me.
just what i wanted and needed. i found myself gravitatingg toward this book when i was sad and wanted a cute story and i was almost always satisfied (there are a few stories im mad at for the endings) but overall i really enjoyed it and it put me in such a good mood (:
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
okay here’s the thing: I would have loved this book a few years ago. Specifically when I was still a teenager who had no idea how love worked and still thought instalove was an okay trope. (spoiler alert: IT NEVER IS).
part of the reason this didn’t work out for me is because I couldn’t really relate to the characters all that well. also because it started off with katie cotugno and to say I’m not the biggest fan of her work is probably the understatement of the century. it all also started to get mind-numbingly repetitive after a while: MC meets love interest, shit happens and they get together. Only we’re not even granted the satisfaction of seeing them together. If this was a fanfic, it would be tagged Pre-Relationship. (Side note: why don’t real books come with tags so we can decide whether we want to read them or not?? If fan-created work can warn us about potential triggers, why can’t original work?)
Anyway. Going to find a Really Good Fic now to cleanse my soul.
part of the reason this didn’t work out for me is because I couldn’t really relate to the characters all that well. also because it started off with katie cotugno and to say I’m not the biggest fan of her work is probably the understatement of the century. it all also started to get mind-numbingly repetitive after a while: MC meets love interest, shit happens and they get together. Only we’re not even granted the satisfaction of seeing them together. If this was a fanfic, it would be tagged Pre-Relationship. (Side note: why don’t real books come with tags so we can decide whether we want to read them or not?? If fan-created work can warn us about potential triggers, why can’t original work?)
Anyway. Going to find a Really Good Fic now to cleanse my soul.
These stories are adorable. My only problem (if you can call it a problem) is that I would have loved to know more about these characters.
Not sure, just didn't enjoy most of the stories. There were a few I did like, but mostly just forgettable stories. I liked the subway/statistics one the most!
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
emotional
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Original review from The Paper Trail Diary:
Colour me disappointed. I was soooo excited for this, and it fell down hard.
There are a lot of issues with this collection of “meet cute stories” by popular YA authors, and firstly, it’s that most of the stories are not actually meet cute moments. Yeah. In many of the stories, characters already knew each other in some way, or the way they get together is very gradual over the story, or not even until the end. A meet cute is like, a couple meets in an elevator when the girl drops her purse and the guy picks it up and they look at each other and sparks fly. I basically think of Mindy Kaling when I think of meet cutes. So there was that, which just made me disrespect the book because it had one simple thing to do!
There was no coherent editor for the book, no introduction, no reasoning, and a lot of the stories that were similar to each other were placed right next to each other. There were no guy-guy relationships present, or any ace, which I thought was too bad. I feel like this book could have been so good, but it was a big let down. And I don’t say this stuff lightly.
The stories I did enjoy were Emery Lord’s “Oomph,” “Click” by Katherine McGhee, “The Dictionary of You and Me” by Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Jocelyn Davies’ “The Unlikelihood of Falling in Love.” I wasn’t super into Julie Murphy’s story unfortunately, and I couldn’t even finish Nicola Yoon’s.
It makes me wonder if the publisher just wanted to put something together quickly to make a few bucks – which to be honest will work – but it just could have been done so much better, and I feel like many of these authors don’t have a lot of short story experience. I’d pass on this one if I were you.
Colour me disappointed. I was soooo excited for this, and it fell down hard.
There are a lot of issues with this collection of “meet cute stories” by popular YA authors, and firstly, it’s that most of the stories are not actually meet cute moments. Yeah. In many of the stories, characters already knew each other in some way, or the way they get together is very gradual over the story, or not even until the end. A meet cute is like, a couple meets in an elevator when the girl drops her purse and the guy picks it up and they look at each other and sparks fly. I basically think of Mindy Kaling when I think of meet cutes. So there was that, which just made me disrespect the book because it had one simple thing to do!
There was no coherent editor for the book, no introduction, no reasoning, and a lot of the stories that were similar to each other were placed right next to each other. There were no guy-guy relationships present, or any ace, which I thought was too bad. I feel like this book could have been so good, but it was a big let down. And I don’t say this stuff lightly.
The stories I did enjoy were Emery Lord’s “Oomph,” “Click” by Katherine McGhee, “The Dictionary of You and Me” by Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Jocelyn Davies’ “The Unlikelihood of Falling in Love.” I wasn’t super into Julie Murphy’s story unfortunately, and I couldn’t even finish Nicola Yoon’s.
It makes me wonder if the publisher just wanted to put something together quickly to make a few bucks – which to be honest will work – but it just could have been done so much better, and I feel like many of these authors don’t have a lot of short story experience. I’d pass on this one if I were you.