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lauren_shilling's review
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Car accident, Biphobia, Death, and Homophobia
Moderate: Alcohol, Racism, and Cursing
Minor: Sexual content
moodreaderlesbian's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I'm not one to really criticise a book just because I didn't like it but I have a lot to say about this one.
The plot was very touching and I loved the time jumps. But there was too much focus on coming out for me, which is absolutely a matter of personal preference so don't let it hold y'all back from reading this book.
I guess I just didn't relate too much to the main character's struggles with coming out since I view it differently from her. I don't like it when coming out is presented as something that has to be done. Some people don't want to come out and it's absolutely fine, you don't have to tell people "I'm xy" if you don't want to, just going about your life and letting people figure things out for themselves can be a completely viable option too.
The relevan characters that knew Maggie were unreasonably bitchy with eachother for no reason and I feel like that was such an unhealthy representation of grief. I understand that they were all devastated but treating others like shit and being absolutely selfish wasn't gonna solve their problems, I would've preferred if at least one of them would've had a somewhat different coping style because this whole "She died so I get to be a dick" thing didn't really do it for me.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Grief, and Death
Moderate: Alcohol and Biphobia
Minor: Homophobia, Car accident, and Misogyny
crystalmethany's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Grief, Alcohol, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Biphobia and Homophobia
Minor: Car accident
rayne_1906'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
3.25
Graphic: Child death, Lesbophobia, Death, Grief, Homophobia, and Biphobia
Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Car accident, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship
courtnoodles's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
"Feeling 22 in 2022": A Taylor Swift Book Challenge - A book with a pink cover
Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Car accident and Cursing
Minor: Biphobia and Bullying
merri's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
corinne loses her girlfriend who she wasn’t out with and she feels like she doesn’t have the right to mourn her. she does cross-country running, she’s the perfect poster girl, she does what others expect of her. mostly i liked this book, it was very emotional and sad and corinne was a multi faceted, ”real” character. but. who i was with her would have benefited from a lot more editing. i think it was too long and some things were repeated way too many times. the message and the heart of the story would have come through with less words/pages/repetition. i liked the last 1/3 the best, where the pace was faster and where things unveiled and character growth was the quickest. a good queer book with some flaws, but with important themes of loss of a loved one, struggling to come out, alcoholism, and even asexuality. a solid book, all in all.
Graphic: Alcoholism and Alcohol
Moderate: Homophobia and Acephobia/Arophobia
Minor: Car accident
bookrmysoulmate'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
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Cursing, Death, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Grief, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
foreverinastory'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
Rep: Biseuxal/questioning female MC, sapphic girlfriend (who dies--not a spoiler in the synopsis), sapphic Jewish BIPOC love interest, asexual/questioning BIPOC female best friend, a couple other queer side characters and BIPOC side characters. MC's mother is alcoholic.
CWs: Alcohol consumption, alcoholism, biphobia--specifically an incident when a biphobic joke is made, child death, death, grief, misogyny, antisemitism, racism, outing--MC fears coming out and the implications of it, many internal and external conversations about it.
Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Child death, Death, Grief, and Misogyny
Moderate: Antisemitism, Racism, and Outing