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Ela fica com ela by Rachael Lippincott, Rachael Lippincott

208 reviews

midnightbelles's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-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

I kept putting this book off for so long but once I started reading I didn’t want to put it down. This book was so much fun and I really enjoyed reading it. I loved seeing Molly grow more comfortable being herself and I also loved seeing Alex change and learn to let others in. I wish we got to see more of them together after the final chapter but overall this book was really sweet and I can’t wait to see what the author writes next!

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rickireadss's review against another edition

4.0

funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

WOW i really liked this!! i enjoyed the “she’s all the vibes” but without it being kinda toxic. i honestly really liked both mcs - and the narrators were PERFECT. i think the main things i didn’t like: 1) i wanted more 1-on-1 time with alex&molly and 2) that ending was SO abrupt. some of the fanart though?? AMAZING.

⚠️: alcoholism, addiction, toxic relationship, racism, car accident, abandonment, xenophobia, adoption, classism

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d4rrrcy's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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nicks_books's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-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

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literarylocd's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

(or maybe 3.75)

i liked this story. i think often with two mcs, one of them ends up being insufferable whilst the other one is amazing but that wasn’t the case here. i loved both molly and alex especially how they brought out the best in each other. and their moments were so damn cute. I really loved how Alex had to learn that what you see as ‘typical’ in relationships is often rooted in the relationships you saw modelled as a child. and her coming to terms with the fact that

Natalie did not love her and never would was very powerful. yay to knowing our worth

now,

molly’s mum being racist was…a choice. i understand that there are poc who were raised by yt people in white areas and went to pwi which caused them a lot of trauma. and i know that sometimes this can make people choose to ‘turn their back’ on their culture in order to try assimilate into yt society. but jesus christ her mum was such a prick. that scene with the Korean restaurant server was disgusting and then when molly confronted her she said “I’m sorry if my issues with being Asian have affected you.”respectfully, miss me with that BS. her mum will still hate being asian after the ending of the book which is :/ because HER KIDS ARE HALF ASIAN. what does it say about them and their identity if their mother is so set in her ways to hate all things asian? idk

and i wish there was just a little bit more depth to Molly and her struggles.

JUST WANNA SAY WE WERE ROBBED BY THAT ENDING

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ali1311's review against another edition

4.75

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I've been wanting to read this book for so long and for good reason!! This book was so sweet and fun the whole way through! Even though the romance didn't ramp up until the end, I loved getting to watch these characters fall in friend love before romantic love. Them not knowing they liked each other was honestly so fun. This book also carries heavy themes without making the book overwhelming or ruining the cutesy romance. I found myself liking all the characters and seeing the necessity of all of them. Also the fact that this is based on the authors' love story truly improves the reading experience and makes it that much more fun. This is peak YA lit!!

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wardenred's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful 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

Alex has been helping me become the person I thought you would like, but… I guess I ended up becoming, well… me.

In many ways, this was the perfect college freshman romcom with plenty of moments that made me smile and truly wonderful characters. I really felt for both leads: Alex who wore her "air-headed flirt" mask like armor, and Molly on her journey to get out of her shell and get her social anxiety under control. I loved the slow, gradual development of their relationship, how they went from mostly reluctant allies to frenemies to best friends, and that period when they were totally oblivious about falling for each other. I really loved how, while they faced such different struggles and came from such different backgrounds, they were able to see and empathize with each other's dark moments.

At the same time, I felt kind of bad for Cora, Molly's initial "dream girl," because let's face it, Alex and Molly basically manipulated her into believing Molly was a rather different person from who she really was, and then Molly had her moment of revelation just as Cora was catching feelings for a pretty fantasy. Yes, there's a nice irony here—Cora was Molly's pretty fantasy for a long while, but it's not like Cora made an actual choice to present herself as somebody she wasn't, unlike Molly. And hey, it's logical and realistic! Figuring yourself out as a teenager is a rocky road. You're bound to make mistakes and hurt others along the way. But this storyline is one of the reasons I really wish there was one more chapter or an epilogue showing the aftermath and the delayed resolution. (The other reason is that I would love a few pages of seeing Molly and Alex as an established couple.) As it was, the book ended kind of... almost abruptly.

When it comes to the two main plot strands, I feel like Molly's storyline was a little more balanced. All the parts of it—her mooning over Cora, her struggles to fit in in college, her relationships with her family and the way her Mom's internalized racism impacted her, her slowly developing feelings for Alex, her journey to becoming more assertive—painted a coherent picture. Alex's storyline seemed a little weaker in terms of structure. I really liked the parts about her mother's alcoholism, her family life, and the relationship she's built with her boss Jim. But the plotline about her now ex-girlfriend Natalie could have been handled better in terms of laying out the events. I feel like there should have been more clues that Alex wasn't the only problem in that relationship; for a while I thought Natalie was just taking their falling out really, really hard, not just... being herself. Then again, maybe that's on me and my attention span!

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jlinvill1's review against another edition

5.0

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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trashcanmoose's review against another edition

5.0

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-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: Yes

A very fun sapphic read in a college setting, this book switches between the viewpoints of the two main characters, Molly and Alex, rather seamlessly. It’s got a good plot line, despite some things being predictable, but that seems to be the case with many romance-centric books. It’s got a really cute story to it, and I highly recommend it.

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twistykris's review against another edition

4.25

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-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

This was a lovely read. A fun, queer "enemies"-to-friends-to-lovers journey ("enemies" in quotations because they don't like each other at first, but it isn't a deep hatred.. more of a lite version). I do wish we had more of "lovers" time, though!

A lot of sweetness, funny moments, banter, and I loved getting to know each character through the dual POV.

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