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helloitsemmy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Sexual content and Alcohol
Moderate: Grief
Minor: Drug use
abitofcourage'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
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Grief
elisabethc01's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Infertility, Grief, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Toxic relationship
pantslint'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
4.5
Don't get me wrong... this book made me fucking cry, too. The following is a list of quotes/moments from the book where I sobbed:
During David and Tham's wedding, after Mr. Nilsen's speech, where Poppy narrates, "Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other. Maybe that's all it takes." When Alex and Poppy part at the airport, and she tells him she loves him, and he says, "I love you too, Poppy... That's never been our problem." And they just have to fucking LEAVE? And then after that, Poppy sits alone and narrates, "For the first time in my life, the airport strikes me as the loneliest place in the world." When Poppy meets Sarah at the high school and apologizes to her, "I'm sorry. I wish I'd understood what I was feeling before it had a chance to hurt anyone." And a bunch of shit Alex said, but particularly when he tells Poppy during his big come-to-Jesus confession, "I'm afraid I won't be able to keep getting out of bed if you're gone, and if we had kids, they'd have these horrible lives where their amazing mom is gone, and their dad can't look at them."
Anyway, I can't wait to make the phrase,
Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Bullying and Alcohol
Minor: Animal death and Pregnancy
daenerystargaryen's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content and Alcohol
Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Death of parent
Minor: Pregnancy
mandycantsleep's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Minor: Drug use and Pregnancy
transcendent's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
loved poppy and alex's dynamic so much, like yes besties be in denial FOR 12 YEARS (
i too would love a friend who invites me over to their annual trip and falls in love with me eventually and also has a
Graphic: Bullying, Sexual content, Grief, and Alcohol
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: Death of parent and Classism
amberg25's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Moderate: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, Medical content, and Pregnancy
arthurjentges04's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
i didn’t like most of the characters (except for alex), the story didn’t catch me, i wasn’t emotionally involved or felt challenged in any way (i didn’t learn anything new!!!) and everything was just sooo predictable. i honestly would’ve liked the book ten times more if they hadn’t ended up in the end, because that would’ve been something new and fresh, but it’s rom-com, so of course they did.
also, this book very much gave white feminism and the “diversity” felt extremely forced and at times uncomfortable. maybe that’s just me and i’m overthinking/overanalyzing/overinterpreting this🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
Graphic: Grief
robin_reads'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? No
4.5
Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol