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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
It was too slow paced for my taste but I feel like this could be an amazing book for someone else. (4 chapters in and literally nothing happened)
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
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
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Really, really good. Amazing if you love historical fiction. I don’t typically read romance, but this one really sold me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol, Deportation
emotional
hopeful
sad
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
mmm i love love, this made me cry multiple times both out of joy and heartbreak
challenging
emotional
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:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
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
emotional
hopeful
sad
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
I don’t usually like YA, so I wasn’t sure going into this that it was gonna be for me. But it was good. It’s a cute and kinda sad coming of age story. And a child of immigrants who were full of rage and shame when I came out as a teenager, I could relate with the kids in the story more than I expected to.
“A few hours at home and the Telegraph Club seemed more like a fantasy than a real thing. This troubled her. It felt as if someone had taken an eraser to her memory - to her very self - and rubbed at it, then blown away the remains.”
That was a beautiful, but somewhat stressful read.
I do recommend it though!
4.5 Stars
That was a beautiful, but somewhat stressful read.
I do recommend it though!
4.5 Stars
i was recommended this book by a friend and i will never be taking another recommendation from her again. single-handedly the worst thing i’ve read and finished recently. it could have done without the first 150 pages and still been the same story, but shorter. it drags so much and i never once found myself sympathizing with lily or kath or any of the characters. seriously, how is everyone unlikeable in this book. aside from that, little things that i personally didn’t like (doesn’t really have much to do with the book overall): the interracial relationship idk it just wasn’t doing it for me especially because kath was so one-dimensional. all that is known about kath is that she is white, she’s a butch lesbian and she likes planes. didn’t like the fact that lily had to lose shirley and her family, or lily wanting to partake in masculine things bc somehow that makes her more of a lesbian (?), ex. the nativity play, or overuse of the word Negro. the author explains that she tried to use historically accurate terminology but there is not a single prominent black character in the story nor were integrated schools even really a thing in california until years later. alongside that calvin’s school scandal being that he dated a black girl is so disgusting. it’s never brought up again and was only mentioned for, what, shock value? annoying and weird. i probably won’t read this author again.