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What's Not to Love by Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka
1 review
piperclover's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I'm not sure how to rate this. If I could take out from the 15% mark to about the 35% or 40% mark I think this would have been a 4.5 or even 4.75 star. I feel like the first half of the book is just the same thing over and over again where we keep seeing their competition/rivalry and how sometimes it goes too far but how it also drives Allison which is good but we don't need to see it for that long. By the 15% mark, I understood exactly how the dynamic worked and every time these little confrontations happened I already knew how it was going to play out. It took until like 65% of the book to get to the lovers part which in my opinion is just way too long. Up until then I was genuinely wondering if this was even arrivals to lovers at all because there was nothing happening on a friends or lovers front.
Most of the time I really enjoyed Allison because I feel like she is very much like how I was in high scool but at certain points she felt like a caricature. At one point she was lamenting how she didn't understand why Ethan's laptop stickers were random places with no reasoning behind them. Really, she is so ridiculously logical she can't understand wanting laptop stickers? She also doesn't feel neurodivergent coded to me so this just made me grimace.
The other thing that really bothered me was that the 55% mark there was such a good build-up for a big argument or some kind of scene that would provide emotional catharsis for all of the anger that she had built up to that point and then it doesn't really happen. I was so ready for her to lay in the Ethan for doing this thing that I thought was an overstep of their rivalry but she doesn't call him out on the two things I really thought she should have. I understand why it works out the way it does but I just really wanted a great scene of Allison laying into him for this and Ethan being forced to realize the consequences of his actions. It also could've really benefited from dual povs so badly.
Most of the time I really enjoyed Allison because I feel like she is very much like how I was in high scool but at certain points she felt like a caricature. At one point she was lamenting how she didn't understand why Ethan's laptop stickers were random places with no reasoning behind them. Really, she is so ridiculously logical she can't understand wanting laptop stickers? She also doesn't feel neurodivergent coded to me so this just made me grimace.
The other thing that really bothered me was that the 55% mark there was such a good build-up for a big argument or some kind of scene that would provide emotional catharsis for all of the anger that she had built up to that point and then it doesn't really happen. I was so ready for her to lay in the Ethan for doing this thing that I thought was an overstep of their rivalry but she doesn't call him out on the two things I really thought she should have. I understand why it works out the way it does but I just really wanted a great scene of Allison laying into him for this and Ethan being forced to realize the consequences of his actions. It also could've really benefited from dual povs so badly.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Vomit and Medical content
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