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rickireadss's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Mental illness and Abandonment
Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Infidelity and Alcohol
greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Bullying, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
krisalexcole's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Mental illness and Abandonment
Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcohol
notsobinaryart's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Mental illness and Abandonment
Minor: Misogyny, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
zombiezami's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cursing and Medical content
Minor: Bullying, Sexual content, Blood, Alcohol, and Classism
readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Abandonment and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Bullying and Medical content
Minor: Child abuse, Infidelity, Vomit, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
takarakei's review against another edition
- 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
- Ex best friends
- Enemies/academic rivals to friends to lovers
- Dual pov
- The wittiest snarkiest banter
- They annoy each other into love
- British
- Black teen joy
- Great mental health rep
I do think that because it’s a very character driven book that the two POVs were sometimes hard to distinguish, because they didn't break between chapters and both characters had similar inner dialogues. On audiobook this is obv not be a problem and I would reread this on audiobook!
1/5 🌶️
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Abandonment
Moderate: Grief
Minor: Cursing and Alcohol
Brad has OCD. Celine’s father abandoned her & her family.peachmoni's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Medical content, Abandonment, and Alcohol
arthur_ant18's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
As a reader who adores Talia Hibbert's work, I was pumped to find some incredible charm in her first YA romance. It starts off strong, putting an intriguing twist on the enemies-to-lovers trope (a favorite of mine) by turning it into best-friends-to-enemies-to-lovers. Then it goes further on to introduce us to these two tremendously relatable teenagers who instantly get you to root for them to make up and kiss already (literally and figuratively). The wildly witty banter, the entire scholarship element, Celine's struggles over her absentee dad, Brad dealing with his OCD (Hibbert has shown herself to be highly skilled at weaving physical and mental health into her romances), all of these things are fleshed out by Hibbert in a way that really does get me vibing with the story. Not enough for me to rank it higher than her Brown Sisters series (which are truly splendid), but still, I've got plenty of love for this YA novel. We get bisexual rep through Brad, too, and that's something I always appreciate seeing in fiction—M/F romances where one or both of the leads are bi so that it validates their bisexuality and counters the belief that M/F romances don't involve queer partners.
Overall, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute is another lovable banger in Talia Hibbert's bibliography.
Graphic: Mental illness, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content
Minor: Cursing and Alcohol
shaipanda's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Anyways I absolutely loved this, loved the characters and I’ve been in a book slump for like over a month and I think this might’ve just gotten me out of it :)
Graphic: Mental illness, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content
Minor: Cursing, Sexual content, and Alcohol