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zombiezami'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
4.5
Graphic: Car accident, Murder, Drug use, Kidnapping, Body horror, Blood, Confinement, Death, and Alcohol
Moderate: Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Cursing, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Abandonment, Death of parent, Excrement, Racism, Xenophobia, and Gun violence
Attempted rapereaderette's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
However, the aunties also annoyed the hell out of me with their in-fighting (which I understand was a choice the author made to reflect her culture, but just got tiresome for me as a reader), Nathan is too perfect to be real, the dead body plot is somewhat cute but mostly just a series of dumb decisions, and Meddy's stream of consciousness narration was distracting.
Kissing and mentions of sex but no sex scenes.
Minor: Cursing, Racism, Sexism, Death, and Sexual content
emilyandherroomofbooks'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
5.0
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Cursing
kimveach's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death, Alcohol, and Car accident
Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual content
Minor: Drug use, Vomit, Car accident, and Cursing
jillkaarlela'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
Minor: Cursing and Sexual content
This is definitely not YA, but it is not super inappropriate. I would say 16+ ishleighannebfd3b's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Alcohol, Car accident, Confinement, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Sexual content
Minor: Cursing, Gun violence, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship
ellaensorcelee's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Death and Murder
Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Cursing, Drug use, and Sexual assault
Minor: Racism
Graphic: Death and murder - the murder mentioned in the book description is referred to throughout the entire book, but no extremely detailed descriptions are given of the act itself Moderate: Alcohol - bridal party and wedding guests consume alcohol throughout Blood - mention of blood during the murder Car accident - moments leading up to and right after are described in detail, but not the accident itself; damage to the car is mentioned afterwards Cursing - throughout the book, usually just a word or two at a time Drug use - mentions of smoking marijuana Sexual assault - main character fears she will be assaulted near the beginning of the book; several mentions to this incident again later on Minor: Racism - racist comment made by a white man to a group of Chinese-Indonesian women; no slurs usedmaddiebusick'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
3.5
Moderate: Death, Murder, Car accident, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Drug use, and Cursing
iviarelle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
My only real down side is the naming of Big Aunt could get a little... frustrating-hurtful for fat readers who are sensitive to that kind of thing. Her name for the whole book is just Big Aunt, because she's a little bigger in size than her sisters. She's never put down for it that I noticed, and in fact Meddy says in chapter 1 that Big Aunt is the one who meets with clients and everything because her size just makes her more majestic and convincing and confident. But, the other aunts are just Second Aunt and Fourth Aunt, and so Big Aunt being the only one with a distinguishing characteristic and that being her name might not land well for some readers.
That being said, I'm not sure it's exactly what I expected, and yet, it's pretty much everything I could have asked for from the premise. This is a definite recommend.
Graphic: Car accident, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Vomit
Minor: Xenophobia, Racism, Excrement, Cursing, and Confinement
amibo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
What was great: Meddy's mom (definitely LOLed at her comments several times), Indo & Chinese relationships & traditions
What was fun: The aunties dialogue
What really, really, did not work for me: The widely fluctuating tone. I was prepared to suspend disbelief - A LOT of disbelief - but most significantly the flashback chapters to Meddy and Nathan's relationship were very straight-up romance, not even romcom, so it was hard to stay in the black humor mode. The tone pendulum made some of the really over-the-top, unbelievable decisions and situations harder to laugh at, rather than cringe about. I think it would have been easier to stay with the crazy flow if the college years' information was shortened, and only the most important information shared in brief flashbacks like later in the story.
Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Violence
Minor: Drug use, Car accident, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Toxic relationship