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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
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…
Ahhhhhhh this book!!! I love itttt!!!!! It's just something I can relate to very much with the school and how I feel and the fmc felt about it and grew into doing something she wanted to do! This is just such a sweet storyyyy!!!! I loved the fact they all banded together to save Aled and how everyone grows with the relationships and personalities. I need the podcast to be reallllll- please someone read it I need someone to talk abt the book-
emotional
funny
hopeful
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
I liked the first half of this book much better than the second half. Frances and Aled's friendship waS feeling very authentic and relatable and then everything got super dramatic and a little haywire. Not my favorite of Oseman's, but not my least favorite, either.
I did not expect to like this as much as I did, especially after having read Solitaire, I thought I couldn't really relate to Alice Oseman's highschool stories. But boy did this one hit hard. It did take some time to get into the story, but in the end i was crying my eyes out. There are a lot of important subjects adressed, about school, university, life, sexuality and family. I'm still a little too emotional to write a full review, but all in all, a very surprising, nuianced story that makes you ask questions about what the fuck you are doing with your life, especially if you just started university...
Also: ace rep :)
Also: ace rep :)
