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This is cute, I guess, but I really don’t love the books where they fall head over heels in a singular day. It just feels very unrealistic and slightly disconcerting how quickly they fall in love. I know it’s the whole juxtaposition of a girl who doesn’t think she can love, falling in love, but still it’s just like ..what?
It’s also just so unbelievable that it’s not even enjoyable. It just feels like it’s trying so hard to be connected in the plot that it’s trying too hard and it is just not enjoyable. It’s just doing too much and not enough at the same time

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.5

It was a cute book. I found it hard though to connect to the characters as much as I do with other books. I loved the multiple povs with Natasha and Daniel; but also with seemingly random and unimportant people for a page or two. It shows how much a small interaction can change someone’s day or life. Going back to me not connecting with characters, I think it’s because of how the author showed their personality traits and beliefs; Natasha specifically. It’s said she doesn’t believe in love or fate or things happening for a reason. Instead she believes that everything has a scientific explanation. And that is extremely valid, but she brings it up in every conversation and every time the book switches to her POV. So it gets really annoying and repetitive and makes it hard to like her character. The only other main thing that made me rate this book 3.5 was the idea of fate. Daniel believes in fate and it’s obvious the author does too, or at least favors it in this book. But the amount of fate and things happening for a deeper reason in this book make it really unrealistic. So many small things that the average person won’t remember some how become these big events in the end. And yeah, sometimes these seemingly coincidental events happen, but in the book these events happened more in one day than probably an average persons lifetime, making it really hard to relate to the story and making it less believable

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emotional hopeful lighthearted sad 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

3.25

I enjoyed the book to an extent, though the main characters are around 17 and that is definitely the target audience age range, so it probably would have been more impactful if I hadn't read this in my adult stage. Ultimately, it was a cute, idyllic story, even if the one-day romance was a little too far-fetched for me.

I loved the diverse topics that were tackled though! You hardly ever see stories about illegal immigrant families in mainstream YA, or about growing up second generation immigrant, let alone in the same book. That was wonderful, and very tastefully done.

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