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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
slow-paced
This book was SO beautifully written. I loved that Mickey’s world was complicated and realistic and appreciated being inside her head and hearing how she experienced it all. The way she described the push and pull of her hometown and her family and friends there versus her life in NYC made me so emotional and felt like such a real, nuanced struggle. While the ending didn’t tie things up in a neat little bow, I felt comforted in knowing that Mickey had reached a deeper, more true part of herself by reconnecting with where she is from but also finding a more authentic version of herself in New York.
What holds this back a little for me is that I had a hard time connecting to the social media/beauty world of it all and found the first part of the book to be a bit shallow. As Mickey goes home though, and spends time with her friends and family, everything felt so much more genuine…and maybe that’s the point of it all but it feels as though Mickey was going back to some of that shallowness in NYC in the end?tbh, I’d really like to think she doesn’t end up with Lex in the end. I think she has more growing to do and I’d love to read more about what this next phase looks like for her I’m excited to read more from this author!! Shout out to the DMV too!!! Loved reading a book set here.
What holds this back a little for me is that I had a hard time connecting to the social media/beauty world of it all and found the first part of the book to be a bit shallow. As Mickey goes home though, and spends time with her friends and family, everything felt so much more genuine…and maybe that’s the point of it all but it feels as though Mickey was going back to some of that shallowness in NYC in the end?
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This … feels like two different books got jammed together, and I liked the book that was about media workplace culture, but I hated the book that was about the world’s whiniest person moping around her old neighborhood being The Worst to her friends and family for 200 pages.
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I’ll have to sit on this more but…I really just did not like this book. Some sections held my attention, but for the most part, it felt like a chore — I picked up so many other books between starting and finishing it. I can’t pinpoint why exactly. I think since there were only two settings (the New York apartment and her grandparents home) and nothing really happens (aside from infidelity?) I just felt a bit bored. The writing itself was quite beautiful, but when I stepped back it felt like just words.
I dont know what to feel or think of this book. i mean this book started off good with the mc experiencing getting fire from her job and her rocky (which is only rocky from her side) relationship with her gf but as soon as she uprooted her life (breaking up with her gf, sending a risky tweet exposing her job) the book just became straight up nonsense of this Mickey (the mc) basically being number one ass. the whole book focus less on the racial politics of working in corporate, like how the reader was led to believe in the first bit of the book, and it was more abt whether or not mickey shld hook up with her first heartbreak.
AND DONT EVEN, the whole story line with her trying to hookup with T was SO BORING,
AND DONT EVEN, the whole story line with her trying to hookup with T was SO BORING,
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes