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Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

11 reviews

abigailgrims's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

I was very very tempted to DNF. 

The dialogue was very unrealistic and felt sort of like what a child would think adults talk about. Both main female characters were written like manic pixie dream girls. It honestly felt unrealistic how unlikeable each character was - like a real person would have something redeemable. There are also some frustrating points of extreme unrealism (beyond the dialogue).

I agree with other reviews that really not much happens in the book, and not in a cool way. 

One trigger warning to be aware of that’s hard to cover with tags:
The protagonist is drinking, at times heavily, while pregnant. This is part of a really intense and seemingly not purposeful self destruction arc.
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wherrick18's review against another edition

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challenging dark hopeful reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I really liked the story at the beginning and felt like it was going somewhere but I didn't really care for the plot mid way through to the end. I just didn't really see the point in the story. I didn't see the changes or character development at all. That and it was weird to me when I realized the main character is only newly 18 and the woman she's crushing on was in her forties. Just a little weird 
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britt_zonnebloempit's review against another edition

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tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

It's hard to connect with a main character you don't know the name of....
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emily_reads_books92's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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roaze's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I’ll get back to this after I’m done crying…. 
~A few days later~
Okay done crying here is a bunch of quotes and lines that I liked from the book or felt represented it pretty well.

“I started to picture the world without me in it“ -page 115.

“I added nothing - I had no hopes, no real tangible dreams that would make any lasting impact. If I was gone. Worst case scenario some pizzas wouldn’t be delivered on time. -page 116.

“You don’t have to be sorry. He didn’t die sad.
He died stupid.“-page 120.

“My heads a mess everywhere I go, I seem to find a way to trap myself. Most days, I can ignore it, but like anything really open and forgotten, it begins to rot. There are just too many thoughts, memories. I can’t look at anything and not think of something else.” -page 127.

“Jenny was more a person to me than mum ever had been” -page 136.

*Possible spoilers ahead*


“I love you,” he said “I love you so much and I’m so mad at you and I can’t even tell you how mad I am at you. The other day I woke up and went into our bathroom. The water was all over the floor, you’d left the sink running all night. I went back into the room, ready to fight about it, wanting to fight about it, but when I open the door you were just sitting up in bed, looking out the window. I stood in the doorway for a full five minutes, and you didn’t even turn your head.”
He looked up at me, tears dripping off his cheeks, and I wished he had hit me.
“What do you do in the shed in the backyard every night?”
Hit me, I can’t have this conversation, hit me, please, anything other than this.” -Page 160 to 161.

“Even if I never picked up the phone and heard her voice on the other end, I would’ve found something to lose myself in-If you were pushed off a cliff, you’d grab hold of anything resembling safety.“ - page 189.
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mollmccaff's review against another edition

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fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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glowupkay1's review against another edition

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emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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_kate333's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced
  • 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

this book was actually so amazing!! it was a bit weird at times lmao but it really makes more sense when you read the whole thing. it was really funny and the writing was just PHENOMENAL. like the descriptiveness was just out of this world and i enjoyed it so much. please read this book!!!
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ryanlee's review against another edition

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dark funny sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This book is beautifully written and compulsively readable. Plus, I really felt Jane’s malaise and aimlessness and grief, and I admire the author’s ability to convey Jane’s complicated, mixed-up desires for Jenny. There’s so much to love about this book! I get all the rave reviews.

With that said, I don’t feel like book has a resolution, and it leaves readers dangling. I don’t mean that the characters’ lives have to be neat and clean, their futures rosy with possibility. But when a dark and sudden twist
(a gun, with all the Chekovian implications that has)
is introduced late in the third act, it ratchets up the stakes and deepens the book’s darkness considerably. As I reader, I needed more than a short epilogue to bring me down from that episode.

If you’re in for a dark read—darker even than the premise of a pregnant, fledgling alcoholic teenager who’s grieving the death of her alcoholic father and becomes a stalker—I highly recommend it. The book is funny, and despite the content, it does feel “light” in some ways, at least until the end. But I’ve seen it described as fun and light-hearted and a romp—and those, it certainly is not.
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vanlaire's review against another edition

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dark funny reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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