4.24k reviews for:

Greta & Valdin

Rebecca K Reilly

4.13 AVERAGE

kry_yang's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny lighthearted reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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gay characters being gay!!! love to see it

savannalope's review against another edition

4.75

emotional funny 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

camilodilu's review against another edition

5.0

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

liyanga's review against another edition

4.0

funny 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

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While I found this book quite funny and enjoyed the slice of life vibe with characters I related to, I did feel a bit unsatisfied by the ending and didn’t feel like some of the conflicts were resolved properly or at all - but maybe that was the point? Maybe we step in for a few weeks with these characters and when we leave them their lives go on. 

hologlam's review against another edition

4.25

funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

amelia_micheline's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

foona's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny 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

karrative's review against another edition

3.0

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This is a weird book that really doesn't offer much beyond depicting queerness. For the sake of queerness, if nothing else though, one wishes the book was just better? To start with, it does not really have a plot? Most things do not happen but actually are told one character to another. Including retold stories that feel really out of place like siblings who seem to have reasonably good relationships telling each other their coming out stories as though they were reporting them to strangers. The voice of the two narrators (Greta and Valdin) are very hard to distinguish which makes one further wonder why there were introduced. Lastly, the understanding of love (the key driver for the characters' actions) is really quite bizarre. Like when two people who previously in a relationship, but one fucked off to the other side of the world following the other's mental breakdwon (because they worry they contributed to it?), do not communicate for months, but then meet up when work brings one to the city where the other lives, and close to immediately afterwards become engaged and want to raise an adopted child together. What?

abigailb's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective

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Did not enjoy this as much as I had wanted/expected. was hoping for something like bautman’s The Idiot. i think maybe the focus on too many characters’ interactions with one another is where this novel fell short. major props to the author for the list at the beginning explaining how they were all related tho and clarifying names.

P.S. I know that Xabi was spanish not Argentinean, but i couldn’t help but imagine him as pedro pascal❤️ 

dorottyax's review against another edition

5.0

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this was such a blast to read - literally Lol-ed my way through the book