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Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

35 reviews

marissagero's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cursing and Alcohol

emilywemily6's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

4.5

This book was beautifully written, with tender moments and dynamic characters. I adore Jacob! I really appreciate the author’s efforts to write contemporary romances that aren’t tragic but still have emotional components and some trauma/personal growth required of the characters. Bri really bothered me though in the second half of the book because she was hyper fixating on one assumption she made and she disregarded everything else in front of her face. It made it harder to feel like she was still speaking Jacob’s language like she had earlier in the story. Overall, I loved this book, though parts of it ripped my heart out and I couldn’t get to the happy ending fast enough to recover emotionally.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Infidelity, Sexual content, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Miscarriage

daenerystargaryen's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicide, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

mariposa517's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Medical content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Grief, and Pregnancy

smilagros's review against another edition

challenging funny hopeful lighthearted 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

This was my first Abby Jimenez and I get the hyped. I listened to this on audio and I recommend reading it that way. It has a male voice actor and a female voice actor. Just the tone they use sometimes is how I would have said it in my head if I was reading it physically. The only reason it is not a 5 is because of the ending. I felt that it may have needed to be longer to just flesh out what happened. I felt it was rushed a little in the end and I wish there was more build up to the epilogue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Alcohol

tigertheory's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Predictable. Boring and rambling. Almost too cute. 

Also, this is just my personal pet-peeve but how about we don’t end every single love story in a pregnancy and a wedding? Not wanting kids is not automatically a trauma response.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Violence and Medical content

juanat77's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Cursing, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

jenniferbbookdragon's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

5.0

If I could rate this higher than a 5 I would! Starting this book, I thought it would be a typical rom-com with a fake-dating trope, but it became a much deeper story. Both Jacob and Briana are complex characters with medical careers,  recent painful relationship histories, and complicated extended families. Mental health and organ donation are woven into the story in meaningful ways,  and I truly loved how people showed up for each other. There is real character growth. 
I will definitely be seeking out other books by Abby Jimenez.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Vomit, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

fleur____'s review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

dblue236's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

4.0

I cannot stress enough that romance is not my genre of choice and never will be. If I'm honest, I only picked this book at all because I was offered a free copy. Turns out I'm glad I gave it a chance, though. I really loved the characters, and the author's depictions of anxiety and abandonment issues were spot-on. I was irritated with the complete lack of communication by the last third of the book, because "miscommunication but let's not ever talk about it and just keep spiraling" is maybe my least favorite trope after "he's an asshole but I love him anyway." Overall, though, the book was really cute and sweet and hopeful and I loved that about it. I definitely enjoyed this much more than I expected to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

Minor: Miscarriage, Medical content, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol