Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

2 reviews

georgiajala's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

The writing for this book just felt really lazy. There were several lines where it seemed metaphors were just thrown together but didn’t add any actual meaning.

For example, when Emmitt/Rye describes his wife he says, “Her beauty: spectacularly normal, timeless. Practical and clean, like a girl on a bar of soap.” (113). What does that mean?? Who wants to be described as a bar of soap? I don’t know but a lot of the writing just felt really off to me.

I also couldn’t get past the fact that Tallie’s character just felt so cheesy and unrealistic. She’s described as an “empath” and just overly trusting because she can read people’s energy??  

My expectations for this book were low to begin with just going off the cover but I was hoping for something fun and easy to read. This story just felt very bizarre and had characters that didn’t feel real to me at all. 

I thought the ending was cute though.

Also, Emmitt was married to a woman but didn’t know what a pencil skirt was?? The writing made it seem like he was an alien or something.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

daisymf's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Infidelity, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, and Infertility