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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
“Hello. I hope somebody is listening…” is how every YouTube episode of University City starts, Frances’ favourite thing.
The platonic (trust me, they DO NOT fall in love) relationship between Aled and Frances just pulled at my heartstrings because it was just so wholesome and not once did they even remotely think they had a thing for one another.
Each chapter “title” is something that is later said in the chapter and that’s just not something I’m really a big fan of. Besides that, it’s well written and an overall decent read.
The book is a lot more underwhelming than I thought it would be. There are some relatable themes in the book, I.E Frances having a hard time making friends and hiding her true self at school. Been there, done that.
Now don’t get me wrong, Oseman did an amazing job and describing teenagers, right down to fandoms and I love that. But this book just wasn’t up my alley. It was a slow paced book and nothing too too exciting happened through 70% of the book.
I really wanted to like this book, and I don’t hate it. I just, unfortunately, don’t love it. It wasn’t at all cliche which is great because there were some points that I thought I would know what was going to happen, but it didn’t take that direction at all. I appreciated that.
If you want a slow paced read with fairly relatable characters, then this is the book for you!
“Hello. I hope somebody is listening…” is how every YouTube episode of University City starts, Frances’ favourite thing.
The platonic (trust me, they DO NOT fall in love) relationship between Aled and Frances just pulled at my heartstrings because it was just so wholesome and not once did they even remotely think they had a thing for one another.
Each chapter “title” is something that is later said in the chapter and that’s just not something I’m really a big fan of. Besides that, it’s well written and an overall decent read.
The book is a lot more underwhelming than I thought it would be. There are some relatable themes in the book, I.E Frances having a hard time making friends and hiding her true self at school. Been there, done that.
Now don’t get me wrong, Oseman did an amazing job and describing teenagers, right down to fandoms and I love that. But this book just wasn’t up my alley. It was a slow paced book and nothing too too exciting happened through 70% of the book.
I really wanted to like this book, and I don’t hate it. I just, unfortunately, don’t love it. It wasn’t at all cliche which is great because there were some points that I thought I would know what was going to happen, but it didn’t take that direction at all. I appreciated that.
If you want a slow paced read with fairly relatable characters, then this is the book for you!
emotional
hopeful
reflective
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
Ho ufficialmente una cotta per qualsiasi cosa Alice Oseman scriva.
challenging
emotional
funny
sad
medium-paced
2.5 - I guess it made me emotional, a lil bit. But it was so boring. Nothing happening for like 200 pages. Alice, I love you. But. Just. Nah.
i liked it.
found family is one of my favorite tropes. for the first half of the book, i was almost sure this will be a 5-star.
but i guess i quickly lost the magic as the climax started. i felt like frances has been paid dust compared the massive emotional labor that she had throughout the book. even daniel had a proper apology but frances, with all her understanding and sacrifices wasn't even given an apology for the stuff she felt responsible for even though it's the twins and their incapability to outright tell people their feelings that is the real problem.
she had spent years feeling responsible for carys. she was left to pick up the broken pieces when aled had his outburst and no one but raine had ever told her that she shouldn't feel sorry at all. i dunno, i guess being that close friends make it all okay and at least, aled ended up okay but for me, frances is still very underappreciated and i hate it.
found family is one of my favorite tropes. for the first half of the book, i was almost sure this will be a 5-star.
but i guess i quickly lost the magic as the climax started. i felt like frances has been paid dust compared the massive emotional labor that she had throughout the book. even daniel had a proper apology but frances, with all her understanding and sacrifices wasn't even given an apology for the stuff she felt responsible for even though it's the twins and their incapability to outright tell people their feelings that is the real problem.
she had spent years feeling responsible for carys. she was left to pick up the broken pieces when aled had his outburst and no one but raine had ever told her that she shouldn't feel sorry at all. i dunno, i guess being that close friends make it all okay and at least, aled ended up okay but for me, frances is still very underappreciated and i hate it.
I don’t particularly like the subject of the book, the whole fandom idea which is just personal preference so I didn’t include it when I rated it 2 stars.
I felt like this book, even though YA, was just a bit too happy. Like every good possible outcome happens which is great and all but it just made the book unrealistic and a bit cringe to me. I felt like I didn’t really get a good grasp on the characters so when something good or bad happened, it didn’t really affect me in the slightest. I was reading wondering when I would get to the part that would make me love this book but it never came, and the last half of the book was worse to me than the first half.
I do understand why people would like this book though, it did make me audibly chuckle sometimes but all in all I didn’t like most of the characters and the plot. Many plot points happened so fast so and then the next page it was just back to normal again. I also felt there was no fluctuations of journey through the book. Yeah bad things happened sometimes but I really didn’t get the effect it had on the main character.
I feel I would have been happier with all the best case scenario outcomes if I had a connection to the character or to the plot itself but I just didn’t have that connection.
I felt like this book, even though YA, was just a bit too happy. Like every good possible outcome happens which is great and all but it just made the book unrealistic and a bit cringe to me. I felt like I didn’t really get a good grasp on the characters so when something good or bad happened, it didn’t really affect me in the slightest. I was reading wondering when I would get to the part that would make me love this book but it never came, and the last half of the book was worse to me than the first half.
I do understand why people would like this book though, it did make me audibly chuckle sometimes but all in all I didn’t like most of the characters and the plot. Many plot points happened so fast so and then the next page it was just back to normal again. I also felt there was no fluctuations of journey through the book. Yeah bad things happened sometimes but I really didn’t get the effect it had on the main character.
I feel I would have been happier with all the best case scenario outcomes if I had a connection to the character or to the plot itself but I just didn’t have that connection.
idgaf if they’re cringe or baby gay or ”tenderqueer” … i will ALWAYS be endeared by an alice oseman novel…