239 reviews for:

Park Avenue

Renée Ahdieh

3.83 AVERAGE

briophyta's review against another edition

4.0

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I won this in a giveaway and I might not have picked it off a shelf, but I really enjoyed it. Silly but subtly meta and somehow like sweetly profound in it's message. Layered characters and plot, and cultural authenticity. The only things I didn't like were the annoying interspersed "dear reader" blah blah blah bits, annoying amount of repetition whining about the ex-bf & emotional inner turmoil stuff, and the annoying voice the narrator decided to use for the house manager.

scrapanddesign's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional 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

cstovall17's review against another edition

3.25

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-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

icapturethecastle's review

3.0

mysterious 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

gratzee's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

livfifteen's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jencunning's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 9%

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Just couldn’t get into it

onmyown's review against another edition

3.75

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there's something missing but whew that twist

blurrypetals's review

2.0

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 Talk about not living up to the promised premise. The burn was simply far too slow here and I read so much of this book, still waiting for something to start happening.

I was expecting something fun yet thought provoking like Crazy Rich Asians and something raw and intense like Succession. It sounded like such an interesting combo! It still does! I simply wish we had, I dunno, actually gotten such a combo.

I guess it's possible I missed the "good part" by choosing not to finish this one, but at about 35% of the way into the book, we were still setting so much stuff up.

I'm pretty disappointed since I've really enjoyed just about everything of Ahdieh's I've read before and unfortunately this simply can't join those ranks. I'm simply too bored. 

chermainem's review

4.0

mysterious medium-paced