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Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

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mxajlikesbooks's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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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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chrissi_'s review against another edition

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dark fast-paced

2.5

I don't really know what to think about this book. In my opinion, the quotes featured in the description on here don't fit the book at all - in particular, I don't see how Pizza Girl can be connected to Normal People? While I didn't hate the book and it was easy to get through, it weirded me out so much (which I guess was the intention) and didn't speak to me. It just left me with a feeling of confusion and sadness for the apparently so helpless main character.
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historicalmaterialgirl's review against another edition

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

4.0

Underwhelming annoying ending! She needs therapy. But otherwise such a strong character study especially for the "what do I do with my life?" phase we all go through!
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kawooreads's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This was an interesting little book. I had seen a few reviews on Tik Tok, so when I saw it at my local library I figured I would check it out. While I enjoyed it and finished it quickly (it was under 200pgs), I was bored at times at the lack of anything going on outside the jumbled thoughts of the protagonist. She is 18yrs old, pregnant, and doesn't really know what she wants out of life and kind of stumbles through many layers of her identity. She delivers a pizza to a woman and her son and begins an odd friendship. I was not expecting the story to go in the direction it eventually did but the last half of the book is definitely better than the first. But even during slower parts, I always felt the author chewing at important perceptions, and I felt compelled to keep following along until the story was done. One reviewer of this book said they felt the author's debut novel, while not the greatest, certainly has a writing style that is unique and attractive, and I certainly agree with that sentiment. I will definitely check out more from this author even if I wasn't completely blown away by this one. 
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zariereads's review against another edition

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

2.0

I wish I could say that I got it. I really wanted to, from other people's recommendations, from the beginning of the book. It had potential. It just lost it somewhere along the way.
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bookishcori's review against another edition

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

4.0

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sydneybedell's review against another edition

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dark funny reflective medium-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

2.0

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saldre's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

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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

Brilliant from cover to word to phrase to sentence to paragraph. 

After wanting to smooth out her face lines in the previous page: "She laughed and her eyes got squinty, crinkled at the edges. I didn't want to smooth out all her lines." Chapter 2

"The folks at Vlasic are serious about keeping their shir airtight fresh!" Chapter 5

"We'd never sat next to each other before. She'd hugged me twice, but there was something more intimate about being close to someone and not touching. I could've counted the number of hairs on her arm if I'd wanted to and I kind of did." Chapter 6

Screams: "Jenny grabbed my hands again and this time didn't let go. I felt warmth and calluses. I wondered how she got them, what actions she'd committed to repeatedly that there was physical proof of them on her palms." Chapter 6

"Because the reality is, I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me. And I need Los Angeles to save me." Chapter 6

"I could never understand how people were able to start conversations out of thin air and keep them moving and breathing." Chapter 7

"this simple fact made me ache in a place deep enough inside me that I wasn't sure how to claw it out without mangling other parts of me in the process" Chapter 8

".........  I realized how avoidance was the most attention you could give something." Epilogue 
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