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She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

114 reviews

marlephant's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol and Alcoholism

cats33's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Vomit, Lesbophobia, and Homophobia

peskilanim's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit

sleepyfeen's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol

mamaewalk's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

Cute teen romcom.

I couldn’t stop grinning at the adorable romantic gesture at the end

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Bullying, and Drug use

cecinamo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted sad 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

5.0

This is such an amazing, cute, queer romcom! I loved it so much. Even though it‘s a bit goofy and funny, the characters are very relatable and the book also touches on some deeper topics like self worth, internalized homophobia and emotional growth. It also handles the different sides of a toxic relationship really well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Grief, Cursing, Bullying, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Outing

fanboyriot's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

5.0

👌 Fake Dating

🫶 Enemies to Lovers 

🎀Cheerleader x 🏀 Basketball Player

This book was such a cliché but in such a good way.  I loved the characters and friendships in this book so much.  Irene and Honey-Belle though were my favorite characters.

The fake dating trope with a lovely dash of enemies to lovers made it even better.  The banter between Scottie and Irene was always amusing.

This is a cute lighthearted read that deals with getting over past relationships and doing things because you want to, and not because you have something to prove.  It was lovely!

Release Date: 20, April 2021

POV: First Person 

Rep: Lesbian (MC), Queer South Asian (LI), LGBTQIA+ (SCs), BIPOC (SCs)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Classism, Outing, Cursing, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Misogyny

Minor: Bullying, Car accident, Lesbophobia, Vomit, Homophobia, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

wildestreadsoffrancis's review

emotional funny inspiring 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Alcohol, Blood, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

lemonwrlds's review

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Biphobia, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Outing, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Biphobia, Sexism, Outing, Vomit, Sexual content, Misogyny, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Classism, Bullying, and Alcohol

tinysierra's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

“Before you can worry about who's in your passenger seat, you have to learn to drive yourself.”

I held off on reading She Drives me Crazy because I wasn’t sure I was into sports romance, but I didn’t mind it. I guess I should’ve known it would be fine since I was really into Teen Wolf LOL

I loved the close family vibes. I loved the fact that they have important conversations to work out their feelings and support each other. There was a bit of homophobia in the book, but there was no coming out discourse with either one of the protagonists families.

I loved the small town setting. It was really cute and silly. It’s a good book to read around Christmas time. Religious faith is not really a big part of the story, but Irene and Scottie are both Catholic.

There was a big emphasis on the grief after a breakup, healing from that grief, learning to be yourself again and making up for your toxic behavior. I thought that was very important. No one in the book is perfect but they try to talk things out and learn from their mistakes.

She Drives Me Crazy has the perfect amount of sweet and cheesy moments. 

This book does have references to Harry Potter characters in it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Homophobia

Minor: Vomit and Alcohol