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Old Enough by Haley Jakobson

23 reviews

carolinemwatson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Domestic abuse, Transphobia, and Violence

annoyedhumanoid's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? No

3.25

i should have really liked this but i just didn't jive with the writing style. also what ever happened with Josh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, and Sexual content

Moderate: Biphobia, Body shaming, Self harm, Misogyny, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, and Sexism

Minor: Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Violence, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, and Vomit

purplesoccer126's review

challenging emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Toxic friendship, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Blood

Minor: Domestic abuse

tinmanreading's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Alcohol, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Biphobia, Blood, Homophobia, Rape, and Transphobia

Minor: Body shaming, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

jcinf's review

hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book honestly made me wish I came out in college. I wish I had the sense of community that Sav had. The Queer conversations, Queer experiences, Queer love. It made me kinda sad honestly I didn’t get to live that in college. 

That said, I loved this book. For it to make me yearn for a past I never had says a lot about the friendship and community I felt while reading this. 

The characters were lovable. The plot was enjoyable. The character arc was really good. 

I can’t pinpoint it, but something is keeping this from being a 5-star read for me. I might change my mind and adjust my rating, though. 

Edit: yeah, I love it. Changing to 5 stars. It’s so fuckin good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Domestic abuse

itschelseaw's review

emotional hopeful 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

4.5

A very tender, very queer, coming of age/grappling with your past story. Reading about Sav becoming more confident and sure of herself over the course of a semester was touching and emotional in all the right ways.
Jakobson managed to capture the tender heartbreak that is so unique to crushes so incredibly well, it reminded me how thrilling they can be.
The tenderness that Sav holds for her friends, and starts to hold for herself, is a lovely lovely thing. The tenderness that her friends hold for her is a lovely lovely thing. The pain of realizing you’ve outgrown/grown away from your childhood best friend is its own kind of heartbreak and WOW did this book capture it perfectly.
The grief, connection and support that Sav receives from her friends, and gives to Lara, is so beautiful and bittersweet; if only there wasn’t the need for that communal grief and anger.
Overall a beautiful book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Alcohol, Sexual assault, and Blood

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Physical abuse

emmawilsonreads's review

challenging emotional informative 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Physical abuse and Domestic abuse

Minor: Biphobia, Blood, Lesbophobia, Sexism, Deadnaming, and Transphobia

amandaboyer's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Rape, and Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying, Dysphoria, Domestic abuse, Blood, and Emotional abuse

lilgriff's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Transphobia, Blood, Biphobia, and Domestic abuse

bookheathens's review

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

» overview «
TWs (in story and mentioned in this review): rape/sexual assault, biphobia, bullying, transphobia (challenged in the moment), manipulation, gaslighting, domestic violence (mentioned, but occurs off page)
stars: ★★★★★
plot: ★★★★★
readability: ★★★★☆
characters: ★★★★★
writing: ★★★★☆
recommend: YES

» liked «
- the general feeling of a safe space for exploring genders, sexualities, queerness, and polyam.
- the journey that Sav (our female main character) goes on to work through her feelings about her rape/sexual assault. 
- there was a broad and diverse group of side characters within the story from my perspective as a cis-bi-Caucasian woman. 
- the perspective switches from Sav now (as a sophomore in college) to Sav then (growing up with Izzie through her Junior year of high school)
- queer supportive friend groups! End of. That's the entire like. 

» "disliked" «
- Sav's inner monologue was repeated in a couple of instances. She would think something and then say it out loud. When you're listening to the audiobook, it could be not very clear. Not a big deal for me. 
- I think there could have been an additional exploration of relationships between Sav and the side characters, but that's just me never wanting this story to end, so, like... Can we get some spin-offs? Please?

» overall «
I loved the coming of age, struggle with what justice means, and almost "love letters" to her childhood best friend. If Sav had shared some of those perspectives with her, they wouldn't have been so doomed from the start-esque. 

I wasn't expecting to feel all the feels reading this, but I should have known better. 
 
Overall, if you enjoy coming of age, queer romance, and people supporting people with a splash of college life, I think you'll enjoy this. 

As for the audiobook performance, 10s across the board. I loved the narration, and by the end of the book, I knew who was talking based on the inflections/subtle voice changes/attitudes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Rape, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Gaslighting

Minor: Domestic abuse