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4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
personally, i found this book boring but i loved the writing. sets the tone perfectly, even with the conversational style
Okay, WHY didn’t I read this sooner?
I think the hype for this book overpowered my ability to actually pick it up. I’ve owned it for quite a couple years but I would never pick it up. But then I saw it as an audiobook narrated by Lin Manuel Miranda and that just made me pick it up.
Holy wow I loved this so much. I loved Ari and Dante and I loved the story and I loved the setting and everything about it. Wow I just loved it. Also I love when Ari mentions not wanting to study Alexander Hamilton and it’s Lin Manuel Miranda narrating it. Wow that made me laugh. It just was so amazing of a book.
If you haven’t read it, go and read it. Audiobook too. Just soo good. I’m so glad this was my first read of 2020!
I think the hype for this book overpowered my ability to actually pick it up. I’ve owned it for quite a couple years but I would never pick it up. But then I saw it as an audiobook narrated by Lin Manuel Miranda and that just made me pick it up.
Holy wow I loved this so much. I loved Ari and Dante and I loved the story and I loved the setting and everything about it. Wow I just loved it. Also I love when Ari mentions not wanting to study Alexander Hamilton and it’s Lin Manuel Miranda narrating it. Wow that made me laugh. It just was so amazing of a book.
If you haven’t read it, go and read it. Audiobook too. Just soo good. I’m so glad this was my first read of 2020!
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
beautiful
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-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
So I really liked this book a lot. The story is really cute and hits a multiple places close to home. I think it is a lovely coming of age story with very good foils; however, the writing is just okay.
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
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:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
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
“Do all boys feel alone?”
This book left me utterly speechless. But I will try my best to form some coherent thoughts.
This book is about discovering who you are and growing up along the way. It’s about inner battles and how to fight them. It’s about friendship, and love, and heartbreak, and finding yourself within someone else. And this book made me feel like someone was pulling at my heartstrings to make me cry in a way like I’ve never cried before.
The story begins following Aristotle, a teen with just about no friends, who meets Dante, where they develop this relationship that leads Aristotle to throw himself in front of a car to protect Dante. But Dante moves away and Ari doesn’t respond to his letters and they lose that beautiful friendship they had. Once Dante comes back, the relationship isn’t the same, but it develops slowly again, not worse, but different. Stronger. After Dante ends up in the hospital from getting beat up by some boys because they found him kissing a boy, Aristotle finds one of these boys and beats him up, almost in a daze. He says he didn’t know why he did it. He and everyone around him know that Dante is in love with him. He denies being in love back. Once Dante gets better, they drive out in the desert as they often do and talk and Ari finally confesses what feels, ending on a perfect note.
I loved the ending so much that I didn’t want to ruin it for myself and I refused to read Aristotle and Dante Dive Into The Waters Of The World for months (though I did a couple months later and still loved it).
This book was beautiful and the most heartwrenching thing I’ve ever read.
The boy who jumped in front of a car out of “just habit”to save Dante, beats up a boy who hurt Dante, continuously thinks to himself that Dante is beautiful, seems a little too curious about who Dante is kissing! Still denies that he’s in love. His parents literally have to stage an intervention to tell him that he’s in love. They don’t understand how he can sit there and not go after who he loves.
Aristotle is scared. It’s the 80s and he’s a gay boy who is in love with his best friend. But he realizes that he may be scared, but he’s not ashamed.
“How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?”
This book left me utterly speechless. But I will try my best to form some coherent thoughts.
This book is about discovering who you are and growing up along the way. It’s about inner battles and how to fight them. It’s about friendship, and love, and heartbreak, and finding yourself within someone else. And this book made me feel like someone was pulling at my heartstrings to make me cry in a way like I’ve never cried before.
The story begins following Aristotle, a teen with just about no friends, who meets Dante, where they develop this relationship that leads Aristotle to throw himself in front of a car to protect Dante. But Dante moves away and Ari doesn’t respond to his letters and they lose that beautiful friendship they had. Once Dante comes back, the relationship isn’t the same, but it develops slowly again, not worse, but different. Stronger. After Dante ends up in the hospital from getting beat up by some boys because they found him kissing a boy, Aristotle finds one of these boys and beats him up, almost in a daze. He says he didn’t know why he did it. He and everyone around him know that Dante is in love with him. He denies being in love back. Once Dante gets better, they drive out in the desert as they often do and talk and Ari finally confesses what feels, ending on a perfect note.
I loved the ending so much that I didn’t want to ruin it for myself and I refused to read Aristotle and Dante Dive Into The Waters Of The World for months (though I did a couple months later and still loved it).
This book was beautiful and the most heartwrenching thing I’ve ever read.
The boy who jumped in front of a car out of “just habit”to save Dante, beats up a boy who hurt Dante, continuously thinks to himself that Dante is beautiful, seems a little too curious about who Dante is kissing! Still denies that he’s in love. His parents literally have to stage an intervention to tell him that he’s in love. They don’t understand how he can sit there and not go after who he loves.
Aristotle is scared. It’s the 80s and he’s a gay boy who is in love with his best friend. But he realizes that he may be scared, but he’s not ashamed.
“How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?”
This book got me out of a reading slump and I fucking love short chapters so I’d say if you’re also a fan of short chapters give it a go.