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pippamillerxoxo_'s review

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emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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sharbrz's review

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emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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annabananadel's review

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challenging emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

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

5.0

"Push your boundaries, that's what they're there for."

I can't explain how much this books gets me. It's still the best and a good way to start a CH book. I was 18 years old when I first read this and I'll be 28 years old in 5 months time. Been 10 years since I read this but it still made me ugly cry. My heart is broken. I love Julia. It made me want to cherish my own mother and be grateful for her. My life wouldn't be what it is right now if it wasn't for her.

Will and Lake is the type of relationship I aspire to be. Through ups and downs, they're fated for each other. Loving someone so hard you had to let her go so she can focus on her priorities. Too much love it's overflowing and can't contain itself. It's not even the student-teacher relationship that's important here. It's the emotional rollercoaster that you felt throughout reading the book. One second you focus on the happy date between the couple then get crashed by that student-teacher realization then when you thought it's the main plot, it's not. It's the

cancer

. I knew it was coming but that didn't stop me from still feeling the pain.

This book taught me so much. Everything Julia wrote in her letter is not only for Layken and Kel but it was for all of us. Thank you, Colleen Hoover. It's everything.

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ash2187's review

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slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Diverse cast of characters? No

2.75

I struggled through with my interest in this one a bit, but pushed on. You can tell it’s her first book, plus it involves very young characters. It wasn’t bad, but I’m definitely not hooked on the characters story and I’ll be ok never reading the sequels.

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sophieann1998's review

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reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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harperclarke's review

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emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

author: Colleen Hoover

pages: 317

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

fav characters: lake, eddie (my fave) kel

least fav characters: javi 🤢

things I liked: i liked how it had lots of poetry and that the characters bonded over poetry, that’s something you don’t see often. it was very entertaining

things I didn’t like: that it’s teacher x student. gave me extreme aria and ezra vibes

important points: rip lakes mum

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jfb0622's review

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emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

3.0

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missrosymaplemoth's review

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1.5

I wish this book was 200 pages shorter and ended with Layken transferring out of Will’s class. The “heavy themes” in this book were largely about navigating the taboo (read: illegal) relationship. So gross. It’s illegal for a reason; I don’t care that the age difference is “only” 3 years.

Some points that stood out to me:

The slam poetry was confusing and cringeworthy.
The narration was juvenile (even for YA) and long-winded at times (do we really need a play-by-play of Layken’s morning routine?).
I didn’t enjoy how the only person of color’s storyline was
assaulting Layken,
which in itself was just a plot device to get Will and Layken back together.
My jaw dropped when I read about the younger boys’ Halloween costumes.
Not to be uptight like that principal, but my mom had cancer twice and I was surprised at Julia’s reaction. What nine-year-old says they want to be their mother’s cancerous lung(s)? The whole thing was just very odd and inorganic to me.
I’ll give the book one thing: the note from
Layken’s now-deceased mom
at the very end was nice.

I don’t understand why I read this, or how the author has the following she does. I will not be reading the sequels (which I’m disappointed to say do exist). This book served as a lesson and a reminder to never read a book by this author again.

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