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Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli, Aisha Saeed

16 reviews

bookb1itch's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful lighthearted 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

4.0

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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I wanted to read this book as I've enjoyed Becky Albertalli’s joint projects and l love her solo work, so I was really intrigued and excited to see how this book was about. However, this book just didn’t work for me. I found it very long winded and very slow-paced.

This book has two points of views. The first one is Jamie Goldberg. He is cool with volunteering for his local state candidate as long as he is behind the scenes. There’s no way he’d ever knock-on doors to ask people for their votes . . . until he meets Maya. Maya Rehmen’s having the worst Ramadan ever. Her best friend is too busy to hang with her, her summer trip is cancelled, her parents are separating, and her mother thinks the solution to all her problems is political canvassing with some awkward guy she hardly knows. Going door to door isn’t exactly glamorous, but maybe it’s not the worst thing in the world. After all, the polls are getting closer and so are Maya and Jamie. Mastering local activism is one thing. Navigating the cross-cultural crush is another thing.

Okay, I'm going to try and start with what I liked about this book . . . Sophie, I wished we got more of her and the LBGT side of it and I just thought she was hilarious and so much better than the two main characters. I liked the awkward, flirting between Maya and Jamie but that was about it. I felt like the book could have explored more of the cross religion rather than the politics side of it. I find the UK government boring and stressful never mind the US government. I know the reasoning behind this book, but it just felt more of a political book with a bit of romance than a young adult romance book with a bit of politics. I felt like Gabe was a complete tool and I felt like they could have villainised him more or let him have a redemption arc which never happened.

Overall, this book had a lot of potential and it just never happened, it was very long winded with no sort of happy ending, but I just wanted more from this book that I never got.

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annahamburger's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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britgirlreading's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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brokenbodybitch's review against another edition

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It was good just not something I had the energy for at the moment

Check trigger warnings (I can only get the ones that I recognize but there are probably more)

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waitdont_tellme's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted 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? It's complicated

5.0

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iksme's review against another edition

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lighthearted slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

For no reason in particular cough

he put their photo on insa without asking, therefore breaking trust, invading children's privacy and then acting like he was perfectly within his right to

cough, I hate Gabe.
Also this book is so slow, it took me forever to read, but I will say Jamie was anxious without being obnoxious, which is a hard thing to master.
Loving the muslin, poc and jewish rep but I found the plot soooooo drawn out. OMG and

Sophie!! This is a great example of background queer characters done well!

. Although this book felt a little patronising at many points, very motivational message above in character speach.

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ladygetslit's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

5.0

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miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted relaxing fast-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? No

4.75

This was soo fucking good, for someone who doesn’t like romance books i rate them p high most of the time lol
The only reason it wasn’t 5 is cause it wasn’t totally believable that they went canvassing 1 time unwillingly and then we’re totally up for it after that

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rockyroadbutch's review

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hopeful inspiring 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? No

4.5

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