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morebedsidebooks's review
Moderate: Violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Outing
Minor: Infidelity, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Racism
Also includes Harry potter references.querciola'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
4.0
Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, Outing, Toxic friendship, Bullying, and Cursing
Moderate: Hate crime, Biphobia, Religious bigotry, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Infidelity, Cultural appropriation, and Injury/Injury detail
estellagwood's review
- 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
4.25
Graphic: Homophobia
Moderate: Cursing and Suicidal thoughts
pining's review
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Homophobia, Violence, and Outing
Minor: Cultural appropriation and Car accident
evelyn_hughoe's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Graphic: Homophobia and Outing
Moderate: Cursing
Minor: Infidelity
matheo'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: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Bullying, Outing, and Religious bigotry
Moderate: Bullying, Car accident, Cultural appropriation, Blood, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Abandonment, and Hate crime
ezraaa's review
- 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: Homophobia and Outing
Moderate: Religious bigotry
Minor: Racism, Cultural appropriation, and Cursing
longlost's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Homophobia, Bullying, Outing, Violence, Hate crime, and Religious bigotry
Moderate: Racism and Cursing
Minor: Car accident and Cultural appropriation
spearly's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
I am (hesitantly) going to change my star rating back based on the fact that I have not read Seven Days: Monday–Sunday myself and I don't think it's fair to compare them without doing my own due diligence.
Yes, the concepts are very similar. Based on the research I have managed to do (that is, watching a review of someone who read both Seven Days and Date Me, Bryson Keller), I've gathered:
the similarities:
- guy at school dates the first person who asks him out for a week
- a guy asks him out and that kicks off the story
the differences:
- the relationship dynamic
- characterization
- the whole "date for a week" think is a bet in DM,BK and it's not in SD
- DM,BK dating week is school week, SD is a full week
- DM,BK deals with issues of race, religion, and homophobia in ways that SD does not
So... the premise is very similar. The execution is different.
You can watch the video I'm basing this off of here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-1mEqy6GW0
It's still hella sketchy that the author has legitimately names Seven Days as a manga he has read and enjoyed. And please do not take this review edit as a justification for plagiarism, especially in the case of stealing from authors of colour, ESPECIALLY females.
I just think we all need to be a bit more careful with things like this. DON'T do what I did, and write a scathing edition to an otherwise glowing review based on OTHER reviews that mention plagiarism, without doing any research of your own.
Proceed with caution.
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WOW. OKAY THEN.
Just read some of the other reviews of this (I went in blind) and evidently this book was blatantly PLAGIARIZED from a manga called Seven Days: Monday–Sunday by a Japanese woman named Venio Tachibana. So.
Well then. 1 fucking star, Whye.
WHY, WHYE, WHY!!!
Do better.
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I choose to be happy.
Because I can be.
Because I deserve to be.
Gay means happy, too, you know.
I'm not crying. You're crying (yeah, I'm definitely crying)
Date Me, Bryson Keller follows Kai Sheridan, a closeted teen who, in a moment of anger and bravery, asks out the most popular boy in school. And, because of dare made 2 months prior, wherein Bryson Keller has to date the first person who asks him out on Monday for a whole school week, he says yes.
Y'all. Where was this book when I was in high school? WHY aren't there more stories like this for all the teens out there struggling with their sexuality?
This story was so. dang. cute. And what's even better, there was so much more too it that just a surface level YA high school romance. You have Kai, a closeted, mixed-race high school kid with religious parents, and Bryson, captain of the soccer team and most popular guy in school, who learns more about himself in his fake relationship with Kai than he did with any of the girls he'd dated because of the dare.
Spoilers ahead, which will be covered because EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS.
I'll just be clear now, THE DARE IS NOT THE BIG CONFLICT. Kai knew about the dare when he asked Bryson out, which is partly why he had the confidence to do it. The whole "it was a dare??" trope is one of the most annoying in history and I would not have read this book (probably) if that was the big conflict.
This story, Bryson and Kai's relationship, was EVERYTHING. It was almost too good, that every chapter I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. I was worried that the big conflict would be
And Kai absolutely blossomed. He started out this fly-on-the-wall type who hated attention, just wanted to get through high-school so his life could finally <i> start</I>, so he could get to college and be who he's always known he was. As his relationship with Bryson developed, he became more confident, more sure of himself, less inclined to hide himself from the world. When the big drama does go down, sure, he makes some mistakes
When I say I saw RED at the big conflict, I mean it. I wanted to pummel
read it read it read it read it read it
Graphic: Homophobia and Violence
Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Car accident