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3.98 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
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:
Complicated
Laurie Frankel's writing is the most humane and wonderful thing. I have felt so cared for as a reader. All of her writing is a lesson in understanding, empathy, and what we should aspire to as humans. As always, I laugh and cry and fall in love with all of her characters.
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The audio book is amazing
challenging
dark
emotional
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:
Yes
challenging
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Very slow to start, could have been a 100 pages shorter. I kept forgetting the girls were 16 and not 12. The ending seemed a little rushed.
challenging
emotional
fast-paced
“…our mother values us above all things. If the ship had sailed on our lives and well being, at least our mother stands on deck with us shouting at the crew to make the voyage as pleasant as possible.”
emotional
inspiring
slow-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
emotional
funny
hopeful
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:
No
I started out absolutely loving this book - the concept, the characters, the writing - and then it slowed wayyyyy down in the middle, but I still wanted to know where the story was going, so I kept with it. It picked up the pace a bit near the end, but even the exciting parts were slowed down by the writing - huge, paragraph-long sentences and so much introspection from teenage girls - and the ending was maybe hypothetical? I understand this type of writing and story, with a focus on the characters and their differences and their struggles, but I wanted a tighter, more fast-paced story with this concept. It was almost a mystery, kind of, and allllllllmost magical realism, or at least just sliiiiiightly outside the realm of real, believable life, and I wanted it to lean more into that. Still a good story, just not as good as I thought it was going to be from the beginning of the book.