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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
This book surprised me with how much I enjoyed it—romance isn’t my normal genre but I would be reticent to call this a romance. It’s more a human experience, a whirlwind of love and sadness and addiction, hectic and beautifully written.
Want to reread and annotate in future.
Want to reread and annotate in future.
emotional
sad
medium-paced
emotional
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
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
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
Do New Yorkers really take that many drugs? 😭
I have been meaning to read this book since it went viral. I only got to it now and it surprised me (it shouldn’t have)!
This is a five star review so I loved it. Immediately. It was smugly hilarious and immensely heartbreaking. Cleo and Frank are two impossible people that I enjoyed from the very beginning. They gave me hundreds of reasons to hate them but I don’t. I loved them. Despite being a man, Frank is my favorite character. He said things that were in my head. He did things I would have done. He made me swoon. He made me want to punch him in the face. I love him. I also loved Eleanor (whose internal dialogue sounds a lot like mine) and Santiago (the true romantic of the whole book). Anders can drown in a sea of ice water.
Just a perfect book about love, changing for yourself and the people you love, and of course, New York. Although, the portrait of the city is a little unflattering.
I have been meaning to read this book since it went viral. I only got to it now and it surprised me (it shouldn’t have)!
This is a five star review so I loved it. Immediately. It was smugly hilarious and immensely heartbreaking. Cleo and Frank are two impossible people that I enjoyed from the very beginning. They gave me hundreds of reasons to hate them but I don’t. I loved them. Despite being a man, Frank is my favorite character. He said things that were in my head. He did things I would have done. He made me swoon. He made me want to punch him in the face. I love him. I also loved Eleanor (whose internal dialogue sounds a lot like mine) and Santiago (the true romantic of the whole book). Anders can drown in a sea of ice water.
Just a perfect book about love, changing for yourself and the people you love, and of course, New York. Although, the portrait of the city is a little unflattering.
3.5, I actually feel this book touched on something I wasn’t ready to read. I don’t want to say I enjoyed it because it truly was gut wrenching but it did speak to me in some ways
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
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
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
sad
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
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
took me nearly 100 pages to get into it found it quite boring at first but then the pace and plot got a bit more engaging however found almost all of the characters quite unlikeable which sometimes put me off