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megelizabeth's review
emotional
hopeful
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.0
This ended up being just okay for me. There were some elements I liked - the centrality of books and bookshops to the story, many of the side characters, and the coming-of-age vibes and the conversations around growing up and making big decisions. I also liked the romance for the most part, although there were elements to it that didn't quite seem authentic to me. I wasn't a big fan of the writing and ultimately, although I appreciated some of the themes in theory, I don't think they were executed as well as they could have been and I just found it all a bit pretentious and irritating. Maybe some of that is just that it's YA and I'm not really the target audience any more, but then I do still appreciate and get a lot out of a fair amount of YA still and for me this one just didn't really seem to hit the mark. I still enjoyed it well enough to give it a 3*, but it definitely isn't one I'd return to or go out of my way to recommend.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Cancer
Minor: Racism and Acephobia/Arophobia
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