4.19 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing 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

3.75 rounded up.

I really appreciated what this story worked to accomplish.

haaaaaated this when i read it and honestly think i'd hate it if i read it now. maybe coming of age shit just isn't my thing but this iiiiirked me and the film is even fucking worse

I would recommend this to anyone, but only once they've reached an appropriate age! The manner of writing and layout of the whole thing is really clever, and lets us have an outsider view and a first-person perspective at the same time. The story itself would sound dull to try and describe, but the fantastic characters and very realistic events and feelings really do make this worth a read.

those people that absorb this into their entire personality (it's me, i'm people)

I had a great time reading this. Charlie is such a character—he’s a crier, a reader, a lover (and a fighter). I loved being in his mind and wanted to spend more time with him!

The ending is actually insane though and I wish we could’ve spent more time unpacking that?? Like woah…a lot of crazy stuff went down in just a mere 200 pages actually, but for the most part they were handled in a way that was realistic to me.

Incidentally, here's a quote I really liked:
“She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.”
emotional reflective 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
emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional reflective 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

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