Reviews with content warning for Homophobia - You Know Me Well

Very solid book. I very much enjoyed this and sped through it. I knocked it down a star, because the way that Mark and Kate became friends [so quickly] was fairly unbelievable to me. Not impossible, and it would've been made better if there had been more energy put into developing their friendship. It just felt awkward and unrealistic.

The writing oscillated between being very accessible and "normal", to very figurative and poetic. Not a bad thing, and probably representative of the mental state of the ages of the characters in the book. When you're a teen, everything is very dramatic, so I understand. It was just a bit jilted and switched gears on a dime, though. Kind of disorienting.

Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to other people. Nice, gay novel. The relationships felt real, because they had real problems and character development.

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emotional slow-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

3.0

Another book about queer kids finding themselves (but with little coming out plot which is refreshing) but it was a bit too character-focused for me

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hopeful inspiring slow-paced

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

3.0

(I read the swedish translation) The charactars are really sweet but they have their flaws. The book is written from two points of view, which I like, but I thought the two main characters were a bit too similar and sometimes a forgot who's point of view I was reading. An interesting thing about the book is that there aren't any straight people, other than like parents in the background. However, almost everyone in the book are cis and homosexual (to my understanding) and I just think that because of that the book doesn't reach its full potential since it only portrays the parts of the queer community that we already have a lot of stories about. But overall really enjoyable.

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