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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
There were many ways in which i connected with tori but also that was my middle school self. Middle school me had barely any friends and i cant remember enjoying anything as much. I supoose hence im biased in that way. I like how they showed that tori didnt really heal fully just because Michael popped in because that is not how people heal in my opinion anyways. She did become better a little with him around, like she was more herself with him and Charlie and oliver. Tori has been confirmed to be canonically ace in the recent alice oseman art, and that makes me so so happy.
On the other hand, i do wish she had at least one real friend to stand by her. Platonic friendships mean a shit ton to me and Becky betraying her was realistic but yeah, Michael apart from charlie is her only...go to and all. Becky and her seem okay later on but id love to see them make up or apologize or something cus we all do shit in our lives but i guess the admitting and trying to be better makes the difference.
So i wish she had more friends but i understand all too well, struggling with people all through school and only becoming okay with people in college after i met my bff in college. So in a way i connect with that but for the same reason i love, in a way i hate it because i still do believe friendships matter a lot more than is portrayed in media. Also why i love Loveless by alice oseman a little more.
Anyways, at the end of the book it is mentioned this was written at 17, and so i wouldn't be too judgemental of the book.
On the other hand, i do wish she had at least one real friend to stand by her. Platonic friendships mean a shit ton to me and Becky betraying her was realistic but yeah, Michael apart from charlie is her only...go to and all. Becky and her seem okay later on but id love to see them make up or apologize or something cus we all do shit in our lives but i guess the admitting and trying to be better makes the difference.
So i wish she had more friends but i understand all too well, struggling with people all through school and only becoming okay with people in college after i met my bff in college. So in a way i connect with that but for the same reason i love, in a way i hate it because i still do believe friendships matter a lot more than is portrayed in media. Also why i love Loveless by alice oseman a little more.
Anyways, at the end of the book it is mentioned this was written at 17, and so i wouldn't be too judgemental of the book.
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was such a good book goddammit
Tori Spring is so relatable and non-stereotypical and i just love Michael and it made me even more excited for Heartstopper volume 4, i can't wait to see how Charlie's going to deal with his eating dissorder and stuff...
Tori Spring is so relatable and non-stereotypical and i just love Michael and it made me even more excited for Heartstopper volume 4, i can't wait to see how Charlie's going to deal with his eating dissorder and stuff...
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I love Alice Oseman! At this point i would read everything she writes!
Znowu tak pomiędzy 3, a 4. Dałabym trzy, ale mam wielki respekt do Osman za napisanie tej książki w wieku 17 lat.
Główna bohaterka trochę mnie irytowała ale wydaje mi się, że ona miała właśnie taka być.
Główna bohaterka trochę mnie irytowała ale wydaje mi się, że ona miała właśnie taka być.
emotional
inspiring
sad
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts
the frustrating thing about this book is that i liked the plot but the execution let it down. i read this book post reading heartstopper and i think alice's more suited to writing graphic novels than prose? to be fair i know this was her first book and i haven't given their other books a chance just yet so maybe it was just because it was her first foray into novel writing, but i felt like the ending was both rushed and unrealistic? the idea of someone setting up all these elaborate (and at times life-threatening) pranks to get your attention and then you just get into a car with them and pretend it's all okay is a bit far fetched for me and i don't think i could have screamed tori please go to a therapist any more times.
from looking at heartstopper you can tell that alice is really good at interweaving multiple stories together to create her own universe but seeing as this book is the only chance we get to be in tori's pov completely (i'm not ignoring this winter but that is a novella with dual pov) i wish we had more focus on her as a character rather than the pranks.
from looking at heartstopper you can tell that alice is really good at interweaving multiple stories together to create her own universe but seeing as this book is the only chance we get to be in tori's pov completely (i'm not ignoring this winter but that is a novella with dual pov) i wish we had more focus on her as a character rather than the pranks.