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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
informative
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
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
I just don't have the time or energy: I will circle back and try again later :(
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
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
wow. reading this was like watching the weirdest and most dramatic soap opera there is. but in a good way! i honestly enjoyed sana's twists and turns and seeing everything building up both emotionally and physically. each storyline has the possibly of being cluttered but they clash in the most beautiful and interesting ways, with each character playing a part, its so cool! and i also didn't expect other things like nationality, race and racism to play a part of everything with sana and jamie's friends. it played such a cool part and i could honestly relate to such a big part of it. its a full learning experience for sana and the reader and watching it unfold was probably the best part.
A sweet YA novel that also explores important themes and relationships. This was a reread around four years after I first read it.
This book was like… if you think sappy love triangles but the main character is gay and the love triangle is between a guy and a girl, then yeah maybe this is for you.
Me though? No.
It reminded me a lot of “you should see me in a crown” souly because there was a lot to do with race and breaking up and getting back together and stuff like that, and they are probably tied in my books (ha) and I could not tell you which was better but I will say that the other one is much shorter than this book and I suffered for less time.
This book was basically the main character going off about the divide in being Asian white and Mexican… because no other races exist. She goes to a school full of white people at the beginning of the book, and has had to face racism for her whole life. But then she moved across the country (?) and attends a “culturally diverse” school (although not because you learn about 3 different groups: the Mexicans, the Asians and the… goths?) which is pretty much split by race groups so the Asian girls stick together, the Mexicans stick together and the goths… stick together. Yeah. Who knew goth was a race? Anyways, Sara, our main character, joins the Asian girls, as one does. She learns about loads of different Asian things that she didn’t know were common before. As if she isn’t a 16 year old growing up in the 21st century. She then goes on to be extremely racist, and then dates 2 people at the same time but it’s okay, she wrote a poem to apologise to one, and told the other she was gay!
This book was bad souly because the divide between races was unrealistic to me. Growing up around a fairly culturally diverse place, I have never once been mainly friends with another Asian person. I have white friends, black friends and Asian friends. I think it was also bad to be generalising a huge population of the world: spoiler alert but not all Asians are the same. Yeah. Maybe some have strict parents, but the book is trying to be pro Asian and in the end basically puts all asians into one category: strict parents, smart, and don’t have a country they are from, just a continent. Now I’m Chinese-Malay, and my parents are strict where they care about what I do but as long as they know what I’m doing they don’t mind. I’m also not smart, but not dumb. I’m from a country. My family is from China. That’s normal. Sometimes people forget that Asian people are from different places and are raised differently, because someone from China will grow up wildly differently to someone in Japan. So this book was so anti racist, it was racist.
And it annoyed me. A lot.
Me though? No.
It reminded me a lot of “you should see me in a crown” souly because there was a lot to do with race and breaking up and getting back together and stuff like that, and they are probably tied in my books (ha) and I could not tell you which was better but I will say that the other one is much shorter than this book and I suffered for less time.
This book was basically the main character going off about the divide in being Asian white and Mexican… because no other races exist. She goes to a school full of white people at the beginning of the book, and has had to face racism for her whole life. But then she moved across the country (?) and attends a “culturally diverse” school (although not because you learn about 3 different groups: the Mexicans, the Asians and the… goths?) which is pretty much split by race groups so the Asian girls stick together, the Mexicans stick together and the goths… stick together. Yeah. Who knew goth was a race? Anyways, Sara, our main character, joins the Asian girls, as one does. She learns about loads of different Asian things that she didn’t know were common before. As if she isn’t a 16 year old growing up in the 21st century. She then goes on to be extremely racist, and then dates 2 people at the same time but it’s okay, she wrote a poem to apologise to one, and told the other she was gay!
This book was bad souly because the divide between races was unrealistic to me. Growing up around a fairly culturally diverse place, I have never once been mainly friends with another Asian person. I have white friends, black friends and Asian friends. I think it was also bad to be generalising a huge population of the world: spoiler alert but not all Asians are the same. Yeah. Maybe some have strict parents, but the book is trying to be pro Asian and in the end basically puts all asians into one category: strict parents, smart, and don’t have a country they are from, just a continent. Now I’m Chinese-Malay, and my parents are strict where they care about what I do but as long as they know what I’m doing they don’t mind. I’m also not smart, but not dumb. I’m from a country. My family is from China. That’s normal. Sometimes people forget that Asian people are from different places and are raised differently, because someone from China will grow up wildly differently to someone in Japan. So this book was so anti racist, it was racist.
And it annoyed me. A lot.
I've read few books with a protagonist as hateable as this one. I don't even know why I hate her so much -- but I absolutely cannot stand her.
This book is a beautiful story about discovering yourself and what it means to be truthful. It dives deep into difficult conversations that show the reality of living in a multicultural world filled with people who have different experiences even if they live only miles apart. This book is raw and real. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a romance that dives deeper than surface level and shows the truth behind real relationships.
Rating this now because I read it a few years ago but never marked it as read. Pretty telling when the only thing I remember is the mc being racist to her girlfriend and then never apologizing for it? Really rubbed me the wrong way