Reviews with content warning for Infertility - Ατελώς Υπέροχοι

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Ατελώς Υπέροχοι by Colleen Hoover

673 reviews

megyn's review against another edition

5.0

dark sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I knew this book would simultaneously make me fall in love and fall apart with each chapter. A quick, emotional binge read that provides a good perspective and reminder in the end.

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jamiejanae's review against another edition

4.25

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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nickitaylor915's review against another edition

3.0

hopeful sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I just wanted to preface that this book took me over two months to read because I lost interest at first and the main character, Quinn was insufferable but yet I had sympathy for her because of her infertility.

COHO tackled the issue of infertility both perfectly and imperfectly. I know it sounds contradictory but I don’t know how I feel about this book. I guess it was just ok.

I love that they made lemons out of lemonade at the end of the book. They moved to Italy and adopted a dog named, August. They came up with funny answers to strangers ignorant question about “when are they having kids or do they have kids”?

Oh I loved the LETTERS as well!! This wasn’t my favorite COHO book since this took me a while to read.

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brookeharbula's review against another edition

3.0

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eberzy's review against another edition

3.5

emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Emotionally-gripping quick read. Content-wise, this was a tough to get through. Tough relationship and marital topics explored here. My book ratings/reactions are never a result of characters because I appreciate when authors write imperfect characters because that's real. But I still need to comment that I dislike Quinn and Graham. Quinn was good at psycho-analyzing and knew perfectly well what was wrong in their marriage, yet she wanted Graham to love her more than she him. That was so toxic. And Graham is honestly too much. He comes on too strong throughout their relationship with how fast he moves and all the gran gestures. In real life it wouldn't be healthy.

He also gaslit her about his cheating.

And both of them have major communication issues.

While the letters were eloquent, all of those feelings should have been voiced out loud in real time. I was a bit frustrated with the "happy ending." I'm thankful that the epilogue acknowledged that the letters didn't fix everything.

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emilyrosebooks's review against another edition

3.75

emotional sad fast-paced

I love that Colleen Hoover isn’t afraid of approaching difficult situations and this one is no different. I was very emotionally invested in this couple and I kept wanting to shake them and say “TALK TO EACH OTHER”. It is very emotional and heartbreaking for most of this book. Not my favorite of all CoHo but it was definitely good. And this definitely doesn’t feel like a romance to me, it is so much more than that.

It has a happy ending of course, and CoHo doesn’t ruin it by giving them a baby, that would cheapen the story so so much. I love that they find a happy but REAL ending to the story, with the lasting effect of her infertility and it’s sadness but that she shares it now and they find a new happy ending.

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nataliemarie123's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful medium-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

This book is absolutely gut wrenching. As someone that cannot have kids, it hits very close to home. I was not expecting that, and it just made me fight back tears the entire time I was listening.

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