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madscientistcat's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
And if you’re wondering how long the annoying behavior goes on, it’s
Graphic: Homophobia
Moderate: Classism
Minor: Drug use and Alcohol
rockyroadbutch's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Biphobia, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia
Minor: Outing, Racism, Drug use, and Alcohol
markwillnevercry's review
4.5
Just a reminder, this book suffers from the "Everything there is so good" syndrome. When you look back from this book on your life and remember the shit you are forced to deal with every day, it is not going to be the greatest experience of your life, you are going to be overwhelmed. The books are for dreaming, we just need to remember that it is more important how happy we are about our dreams and that we can push through understanding that dreams are not reality yet.
Reading notes:
Chloe: “I am not going to fall into Shara Wheeler’s game”
Also Chloe: *goes to find her*
Huh, I see Smith is just sport.
Yo, this is a YA novel where the main character says “I don’t drink” and people listen.
So Smith is queer? Glad we established that. (Chloe literally was like “The only people being cool with me being queer is other queer people. Hm.”)
How did Chloe not figure out yet that Smith and Rory were best friends?
Oh no, it is the part of the book, where the main character ignores their best friend in the middle of something really important.
Rory is way too obsessed with Shara, it is kinda weird.
Rory is like, a very privileged dyslexic person? I am dyslexic and I never ask people to read stuff to you, you just force yourself to get better, because people are not always going to be there. Sounds rough, but it is not realistic for him to not be able to read things like labels with two letters and he will not immediately hand stuff to other people.
Shara probably wrote notes for Rory and Smith too, they just did not share them with each other (Chloe included) in the same way that Chloe will not share hers. Also, white font colour is not invisible ink.
Why did we stop counting down the days to graduation?
Maybe, I got overconfident in the book and it is actually written for straight people, seeing the whole dialog between Smith and Ash.
Rory is gonna come to the conclusion that he is either not interested in girls or not interested in anyone and he was only interested in Shara, because it seemed like the right thing, right?
So Shara did make her lose by taking all her attention. And friendships too.
Bro, Smith told you that Shara is also his, like, best friend, of course he cared enough about her to keep calling her. You do not have to date someone to call them, when they disappear.
It is kinda funny that Shara would jump out of a car to not think that she might be gay.
Me when I agree with Shara. I totally expected her and Chloe to get right into doing stuff the second they got into Chloe’s home. The vibes are immaculate.
I wish there wasn’t the whole stereotype of “Yeah, my parents explained me sex, but it was way too awkward”. Like they might as well just read you bible.
I AM LISTENING TO THE AUDIOBOOK AND THE PERSON READ OUT SHFJSDKHFJSDHF AND THAT IS SUCH A VIBE.
Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual harassment, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Drug use, Body shaming, Bullying, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Rape, Racism, Cancer, and Sexual assault
The Sexual assault and Rape tags are for something, that is mentioned in like a sentence. The main character mentions, that there was a girl, who got thrown out of school, because the dude she send her nudes to spread them around the school.theuncannydani's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
Graphic: Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Biphobia, Homophobia, and Misogyny
Minor: Alcohol and Drug use
twirl's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Classism, Homophobia, and Religious bigotry
Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, and Outing
Minor: Drug use
loongbooy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Homophobia and Lesbophobia
Minor: Drug use and Transphobia
braggsy's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Moderate: Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Drug use, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia
Minor: Outing, Biphobia, Racism, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Cursing
theespressoedition's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
The beginning reminded me a lot of Paper Towns, aka my favorite book from my high school years and still my top pick by John Green. In fact, there's even a moment during the story where they say something along the lines of, "this isn't a John Green novel," and it made me burst out laughing because that's precisely what it felt like.
However, as time went on, the story shifted away from mystery and intrigue to a very typical high school contemporary. It had drama, hormones, and angst and while all of that is fine and dandy, it didn't feel unique at all. I completely lost interest in the second half of the book and truthfully, remember very little of how it even ended.
I wanted so much more from this one but it wound up being a bummer.
Graphic: Toxic friendship and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Homophobia, Bullying, Drug use, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Cursing
shoohoob's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Religious bigotry and Homophobia
Minor: Drug use
bellflower_bookshelf's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.5
Minor: Religious bigotry and Drug use
Minor use of recreational drugs, religious bigotry is a plot point.