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clara01's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.0
I highly recommend reading this book, it's definitely worth it if you're a woman in your 20s still figuring life out. I laughed, gasped and cried.
I found the first half to be a bit confusing especially with all the time jumps. At one point she's 20 and then rewind to when Dolly is 15 and the fast forward to the next boyfriend, I got quite lost.
The 2nd half of the book I loved. It's written so intimately I felt like I was really seeing inside Dolly's 20-something head and holding onto every bit of advice she gave.
I'm 22 now but maybe I'll reread this book in a year or 2 and see if there's more I can take from it. At the moment all I can think is I wish I had the love of a friendship group like Dolly's.
I found the first half to be a bit confusing especially with all the time jumps. At one point she's 20 and then rewind to when Dolly is 15 and the fast forward to the next boyfriend, I got quite lost.
The 2nd half of the book I loved. It's written so intimately I felt like I was really seeing inside Dolly's 20-something head and holding onto every bit of advice she gave.
I'm 22 now but maybe I'll reread this book in a year or 2 and see if there's more I can take from it. At the moment all I can think is I wish I had the love of a friendship group like Dolly's.
Graphic: Alcohol, Grief, Death, Drug use, Cancer, Eating disorder, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Self harm
Minor: Toxic relationship
allydoessomereading's review against another edition
funny
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
Dolly Alderton reflect on her twenties and the love she felt and experienced in her twenties with such richness and passion. I feel envious of the depth to all the relationships she reflects on, and I feel comforted in learning about the existentialism surrounding love and ageing is experienced by almost all.
Moderate: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Grief, Alcoholism, Self harm, Child death, Death, and Terminal illness
ieotter13's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
This book hit almost every emotion: sad, funny, hopeful, encouraging - but most of all touched what love actually means: not just the hopeless romantics you see in film, the one night stands of your teenage/early twenties, or long term relationships, but true love that comes in friendships and meeting new people and going to new places and everything in between. the intermittent recipes and emails took some getting used to and I found it a little slow towards the middle, but by the end I couldn’t put it down. While the stories in here definitely hit home as a teenager, I can see this book being even more poignant the older I get.
Graphic: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicide
inophiaa's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Graphic: Drug use, Self harm, Mental illness, Grief, Fatphobia, and Body shaming
Moderate: Death
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