Reviews

Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan

shmem007's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

2.0

callmesword's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.75

It's really annoying when the main character is like, so intensely, "no, i hate this bitch. She destroyed me. She doesn't deserve any time from me" but you immediately tell that she's going to be on her knees a hundred pages later. 

I pressed on because I didn't have any other book with me on my trip. 

I just find it so annoying. Why did you spend all that time throwing tantrums when you were going to fall for her, again, anyway?

And I found the characters of Fallon and Chloe quite bothersome as well. It was an infinite game of ping pong. One getting mad at the other for x thing the other did. Then the one doing that x thing and the other getting mad at the one for it. MAN.

It ended all well though. And the cover's very pretty, but, the major good thing is the idea of the ice cream truck and the flavour names. It was very cute.

horuskat's review against another edition

fast-paced

4.0

adalieslittlelibrary's review against another edition

2.75

I really can’t explain it but I really just didn’t like this one. 

abi_or_aj's review against another edition

lighthearted slow-paced

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

1.0

One of those stories where the plot revolves around a misunderstanding that could be cleared up with a thirty second conversation.

lordmatri's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

cisliceapisemna's review against another edition

2.0

2.5

tessaf's review against another edition

adventurous

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

In my defence I didn't realise this was the same author who wrote Hot Dog Girl. Damn she has a knack for writing horrible main characters. Fallon is a shitty person and a shitty friend and so committed to not communicating that she mentions it in her weird asides to the reader. The way she talks about Chloe honestly makes me think she doesn't respect her (and it reads like she didn't even respect her before the fallout that was very clearly not Chloe's fault). I suspect the reason I still like Chloe more is because I didn't get her POV, there's a very real chance it would have been framed in a way to make me hate her too. This book spent a lot of time just stuck in the dynamic of Fallon making it very clear she hated Chloe and not talking and Chloe trying to understand what the hell had happened. And to be clear Chloe is not perfect either, but she falls into more normal romcom levels of miscommunication (hell it might have annoyed me too if not for how dramatically over the top everything Fallon did was). This is a book that falls very clearly into the but if they had just talked there would have been no book category and the asides about how she could talk but doesn't want to are a little on the nose in reminding you of that.

wenyd's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

moodreaderhan's review

medium-paced

2.75