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babsi_222's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
First, I have to say that I didn’t wanna read this book and fired for myself, but when my mum found it for free, I was like okay, let’s go
I was very cheesy and cringy.
The Romans writing was very Wattpad, which if you like it then fine, but I just don’t want to read a normal book written like a Wattpad story. It has a very explicit smut scene That’s also quite Wattpad written if I have to say.
I guess I enjoyed a bit more than I thought I would because I thought I would not enjoy it at all. I don’t think I wanna read it again, but it was cool that they had lots of chemistry right from the beginning and you figure out a lot of different things in the course of the book.
I’m not sure if it bothers me, but I really couldn’t ignore the age gap and that she is a student and he is a professor. It’s just a bit weird
I was very cheesy and cringy.
The Romans writing was very Wattpad, which if you like it then fine, but I just don’t want to read a normal book written like a Wattpad story. It has a very explicit smut scene That’s also quite Wattpad written if I have to say.
I guess I enjoyed a bit more than I thought I would because I thought I would not enjoy it at all. I don’t think I wanna read it again, but it was cool that they had lots of chemistry right from the beginning and you figure out a lot of different things in the course of the book.
I’m not sure if it bothers me, but I really couldn’t ignore the age gap and that she is a student and he is a professor. It’s just a bit weird
Content Warnings
Minor: Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Misogyny, Cancer, Sexism, and Sexual harassment
what_karla_reads's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual harassment and Sexual content
Minor: Sexism, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Cancer, Death of parent, and Cursing
leahfoko's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
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? It's complicated
3.5
It was a bit of a struggle for me to get Reylo out of my head while reading this. Also the sock thing™️ was a little weird to me (personal preference sorry idk man). It just all felt very fanfic-ey to me BUT that is not a bad thing by any means. I am a fanfic aficionado so I have no issues with fanfic whatsoever. I just felt like it took me out of the book a little bit, since I personally am NOT a fan of Reylo. So I gotta get that out of the way at the start of the review, this definitely affected my opinion of the book, but not by any fault of the author’s or the writing.
I do love a fake dating trope. I would absolutely die for that trope, so therefore I very much enjoyed this book. I also enjoyed the science references, as a STEM nerd myself.
I found the sexual harassment thing to be kind of triggering in a way because it was just too real and horrifying. It was hard to read because I know, unfortunately, how often that kind of thing happens and it very often does not work out as well in real life as in this book. Most people don’t have a recording of the offensive misogynistic comments that they can use to hold the person accountable. I just kept stressing about how that could’ve gone so differently, and often does. So having that in the book kind of brought me out of the fluff a bit because I was so distressed. BUT that moment at the restaurant where she plays the recording for everyone was so fucking satisfying I was LIVING.
Another issue I had with the book was the way that Olive kept just lying out of her ass to Adam and not just being honest about her feelings drove me kind of crazy. I understand that she was afraid of admitting feelings and being rejected, but I also felt like she needed to tell him that her feelings had changed because it wasn’t fair to keep him in the situation when he didn’t know the full story. It feels like in that kind of situation it’s important that everyone is on the same page at a certain point. I understand her reasoning, it just annoyed me and there was like 20% of the book where she was just not telling him important stuff and I was like girl. what. I just felt like having him continue the fake dating once he thought she liked someone else seemed unfair because she wasn’t being fully honest with him. I also thought the fact that she kept assuming that he just like someone else, for absolutely no reasoning, irritated me a lot. I guess this is my long winded way of saying that Olive as a character kind of got on my nerves.
All this said, the book was fun and had some tropes that I love to death. I am an absolute sucker for fake dating and grumpy-sunshine. I just think that this was not my favorite of the fake dating/grumpy sunshine books that I have read. But if you like that trope I would still recommend this book.
I do love a fake dating trope. I would absolutely die for that trope, so therefore I very much enjoyed this book. I also enjoyed the science references, as a STEM nerd myself.
Another issue I had with the book was the way that Olive kept just lying out of her ass to Adam and not just being honest about her feelings drove me kind of crazy. I understand that she was afraid of admitting feelings and being rejected, but I also felt like she needed to tell him that her feelings had changed because it wasn’t fair to keep him in the situation when he didn’t know the full story. It feels like in that kind of situation it’s important that everyone is on the same page at a certain point. I understand her reasoning, it just annoyed me and there was like 20% of the book where she was just not telling him important stuff and I was like girl. what. I just felt like having him continue the fake dating once he thought she liked someone else seemed unfair because she wasn’t being fully honest with him. I also thought the fact that she kept assuming that he just like someone else, for absolutely no reasoning, irritated me a lot. I guess this is my long winded way of saying that Olive as a character kind of got on my nerves.
All this said, the book was fun and had some tropes that I love to death. I am an absolute sucker for fake dating and grumpy-sunshine. I just think that this was not my favorite of the fake dating/grumpy sunshine books that I have read. But if you like that trope I would still recommend this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexism, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content
Minor: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent
carina_dreamer's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
• Está foi a leitura de Janeiro em conjunto com a Bestie e eu estava desejosa de o ler porque:
1 - favorito da comunidade em qualquer plataforma
2 - o facto da Olive ser demisexual.
Este último ponto foi sem dúvida o que mais me motivou.
• Depois dos meus 25 anos comecei a ponderar muito sobre mim mesma, romântica e sexualmente 🤔
Ao ler os excertos deste livro, sobre como a Olive se sentia em termos de atração por terceiros e da sua falta de sentimentos pelo Jeremy, senti pela primeira vez que lia algo com o que me identificava e foi fantástico debater isso com a Bestie ☺️
• Estava tão fascinada por essa conexão com a Olive que depois meio que me atrapalhei quando se deu o picante e na minha cabeça nenhum recetor "spicy time" se acendeu e fiquei desconfortável. (I have yet to find an Adam to snap that on me...) Mas a cena não foi má, quando ele levou a mão dela... 🤭
• Ironicamente, eu peguei neste livro pela Olive, mas não gostei dela 😅
Em rom-coms as protagonistas que detesto são aquelas que parecem umas baratas tontas afligidas. Falsos-namoros implicam mentiras, mas a Olive foi acumulando uma bola de neve delas. Miscommunication é uma trope que detesto e tantos monólogos na cabeça dela que podiam resolver tudo nunca foram ditos! Para uns cientistas, os dois faziam muitas suposições erradas um sobre o outro 🙄
• Gostei dos encontros para café e quando a Olive resolveu os seus problemas 💪
• O Adam não se tornou um book boyfriend para mim e acho que foi por aquela primeira impressão de que as suas palavras ponderadas pareciam estar a manipular a Olive, porque eu já sabia que ele estava apaixonado e ela também mudava de opinião mal ele dizia algo...
Claro que depois gostei de como ele era atencioso à sua própria maneira e respeitava a Olive sempre.
Quando ele começou a dizer gracinhas é que conquistou, porque homem calado e sem hobbies parecia ter falta de personalidade 😂
• Os amigos dos dois eram um pouco "too much" às vezes, mas ajudaram muito.
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
1 - favorito da comunidade em qualquer plataforma
2 - o facto da Olive ser demisexual.
Este último ponto foi sem dúvida o que mais me motivou.
• Depois dos meus 25 anos comecei a ponderar muito sobre mim mesma, romântica e sexualmente 🤔
Ao ler os excertos deste livro, sobre como a Olive se sentia em termos de atração por terceiros e da sua falta de sentimentos pelo Jeremy, senti pela primeira vez que lia algo com o que me identificava e foi fantástico debater isso com a Bestie ☺️
• Estava tão fascinada por essa conexão com a Olive que depois meio que me atrapalhei quando se deu o picante e na minha cabeça nenhum recetor "spicy time" se acendeu e fiquei desconfortável. (I have yet to find an Adam to snap that on me...) Mas a cena não foi má, quando ele levou a mão dela... 🤭
• Ironicamente, eu peguei neste livro pela Olive, mas não gostei dela 😅
Em rom-coms as protagonistas que detesto são aquelas que parecem umas baratas tontas afligidas. Falsos-namoros implicam mentiras, mas a Olive foi acumulando uma bola de neve delas. Miscommunication é uma trope que detesto e tantos monólogos na cabeça dela que podiam resolver tudo nunca foram ditos! Para uns cientistas, os dois faziam muitas suposições erradas um sobre o outro 🙄
• Gostei dos encontros para café e quando a Olive resolveu os seus problemas 💪
• O Adam não se tornou um book boyfriend para mim e acho que foi por aquela primeira impressão de que as suas palavras ponderadas pareciam estar a manipular a Olive, porque eu já sabia que ele estava apaixonado e ela também mudava de opinião mal ele dizia algo...
Claro que depois gostei de como ele era atencioso à sua própria maneira e respeitava a Olive sempre.
Quando ele começou a dizer gracinhas é que conquistou, porque homem calado e sem hobbies parecia ter falta de personalidade 😂
• Os amigos dos dois eram um pouco "too much" às vezes, mas ajudaram muito.
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual harassment
Moderate: Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Sexism
Minor: Toxic friendship, Cancer, and Death of parent
baearles's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-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? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Medical content
Moderate: Death, Grief, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Sexism, Cancer, and Cursing
Minor: Alcohol
trishavt's review against another edition
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.0
The characters were neither likable nor believable as fully-fleshed out humans. When the spicy scene happens, it felt written for the make gaze and was as unbelievable as the characters.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Sexism
naomi_k's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
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
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Alcohol and Misogyny
daringreader13's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-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? It's complicated
5.0
Hypothesis- because this is Star Wars fanfic I will hate it. 😅 Too bad the test results proved that hypothesis to be absolutely false.
And now I read everything she’s written before her book event in a couple weeks.
Also I did in fact read this in one sitting. Which wow. I need to read it again already.
And now I read everything she’s written before her book event in a couple weeks.
Also I did in fact read this in one sitting. Which wow. I need to read it again already.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Sexism
Moderate: Body shaming and Death of parent
ruthiedr89's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexism, Sexual content, and Misogyny
Moderate: Alcohol, Death, and Death of parent
jennyeliseq's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-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? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol, Violence, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Grief, and Sexism