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lags2much's review
emotional
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Death of parent
trudyd's review
5.0
I am so happy that I got to read Grace and James' story. They have been a part of the Assassins since the beginning. They have had an amazing relationship, but the learn about the beginning just made it so much better.
Just a warning the epilogue will gut you if you care for the characters. I bawled like a baby and I am not ashamed to admit it. So touching. So beautiful. So devastating.
Just a warning the epilogue will gut you if you care for the characters. I bawled like a baby and I am not ashamed to admit it. So touching. So beautiful. So devastating.
sbauer16's review
4.5
4.5✨️
“You tell me you’re scared, that you think you’re not worthy of anyone’s love. But Grace, you, all of you, is priceless. No one can put a value on you because there isn’t one.”
It's been sooo long since I've read Toni and I forgot how much I loooved her books. I fell in love with How We Fell in Love from the get-go. I enjoyed the relationships, the banter, the characters, and all the swoony moments. This didn't feel like a novella to me at all. I don't even know if a novella evoked all these feelings from me before. I even teared up!!
“You tell me you’re scared, that you think you’re not worthy of anyone’s love. But Grace, you, all of you, is priceless. No one can put a value on you because there isn’t one.”
It's been sooo long since I've read Toni and I forgot how much I loooved her books. I fell in love with How We Fell in Love from the get-go. I enjoyed the relationships, the banter, the characters, and all the swoony moments. This didn't feel like a novella to me at all. I don't even know if a novella evoked all these feelings from me before. I even teared up!!
mina_reads_30's review
5.0
Here I was thinking I was reading a fun and quick story about grace and James, whom I both loved from the previous books. Then bam! A knife to the chest. So heartbreaking and real, totally real. I loved it and at the same time I hate it.
katealfrey's review
5.0
Well. This novella is a masterclass in making people cry in 100 pages or less.
goodbyepuckpie's review
DNF. This one started out with two major red flags in terms of the slut shaming/internalised misogyny from the main character, and didn't do much to recommend itself after that. Definitely not for me.
ETA: I skimmed/flipped ahead just to see how it ended so I'm also gonna add content warnings for firstly it 'ending' with the initial protagonist grieving at the funeral of her eventual husband as a "twenty years later" and THEN it goes on to suggest the whole story till then was a journal being read by their daughter a few years later, which is used to try and argue her into leaving a completely unwarned and not telegraphed at all domestic violence situation. If the tone of the story had been more to my taste in the first place this would have been an unpleasant shock on several levels.
ETA: I skimmed/flipped ahead just to see how it ended so I'm also gonna add content warnings for firstly it 'ending' with the initial protagonist grieving at the funeral of her eventual husband as a "twenty years later" and THEN it goes on to suggest the whole story till then was a journal being read by their daughter a few years later, which is used to try and argue her into leaving a completely unwarned and not telegraphed at all domestic violence situation. If the tone of the story had been more to my taste in the first place this would have been an unpleasant shock on several levels.
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