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Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

103 reviews

savannahsshelf's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Don’t even know what to say that was just so amazing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Infidelity

Moderate: Miscarriage, Medical content, and Infertility

Minor: Vomit

noellegrace8's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

A great romance read! The two main characters have serious chemistry and make one another better people. The writing is fantastic; their relationship comes to life on the page. And Jimenez really gets you to laugh with some of the depictions of scenes and characters' actions. She writes chronic anxiety well, what with the characters' constant mentioning of it and efforts to overcome issues in that area of their relationship. Plus, there are many quotable lessons learned within the course of the book, which I appreciated. I also felt interested by the big family that the main male love interest has, because larger families are kind of rare and I am 1 of 9.

I knocked off .25 for just a couple reasons. The first is that there is some contemporary language & concepts usage that is already not aging well. They're not offensive phrases or anything, but they're going to be considered cringey or dated after they stop being popular in a couple years. (Ex., using "epic" in drama talk)

I also think

Briana's pregnancy toward the end

is random and used a little too obviously as a plot device to create just another conflict for the new lovers, especially since

Alexis and Kelly both are also pregnant.

It seems as if the author is sort of saying that a relationship is actually at its most complete status, and most thrilling, when the couple

gets pregnant,

and I simply disagree with that blanket statement. Seeing the ex could have been a big enough issue on its own without that extra piece of backstory thrown in, especially one that is incredibly traumatic and therefore needed a building up throughout the novel if included at all.

And then, I'm also a bit mad that his ex-girlfriend and the younger brother

didn't get more of what they deserved for their backstabbing behavior,

even though Jacob

got over it easily enough in the end and said he hadn't necessarily ever actually loved her.

There are just some boundaries you don't cross, and they each could have chosen other people. And the family seemingly wanting to be okay with it was odd.

I don't factor audiobook performance into my star reviews, but I give both Kyla Garcia and Zachary Webber 5/5 easily. They are unique, not annoying, and did plenty of inflection without overdoing it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Abandonment, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Death, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Addiction, Classism, Sexism, Eating disorder, and Blood

The content warnings are given at the beginning of the book, actually. General things to know are: a main character has anxiety, both main characters work at a medical facility and have come out of toxic relationships.

charlotte_marchand's review

emotional funny lighthearted relaxing 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Miscarriage

readandfindout's review

emotional medium-paced

4.25

Style/writing: 4.5 stars
Themes: 4.5 stars
Characters: 5 stars
Plot: 3.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Abandonment

Minor: Vomit

aepompu's review

emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

Absolutely loved this book. Could not put it down. The MMC was top tier book boyfriend material. The romance was swoony and mature and believable. Real people with real problems falling in love. I ate this up. 

🌶️/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Terminal illness, Sexual content, and Medical content

Minor: Miscarriage

marioosa517's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Cursing, Infidelity, and Abandonment

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Blood, Alcohol, Vomit, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Grief

alexasolis98's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

4.25

Abby Jimenez really knows how to write a romance. You get to read about characters heal from their trauma and find they happily ever afters. Their healing journey is real and beautiful. Briana and Jacob were a wonderful couple. It was nice to read about big loving families.
Only itty bitty issue I had was that it was a bit repetitive and thus made the book a little long.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, and Mental illness

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Suicide, Miscarriage, and Vomit

smilagros's review

challenging funny hopeful lighthearted 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

This was my first Abby Jimenez and I get the hyped. I listened to this on audio and I recommend reading it that way. It has a male voice actor and a female voice actor. Just the tone they use sometimes is how I would have said it in my head if I was reading it physically. The only reason it is not a 5 is because of the ending. I felt that it may have needed to be longer to just flesh out what happened. I felt it was rushed a little in the end and I wish there was more build up to the epilogue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Medical content, Vomit, and Grief

tigerkind's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Predictable. Boring and rambling. Almost too cute. 

Also, this is just my personal pet-peeve but how about we don’t end every single love story in a pregnancy and a wedding? Not wanting kids is not automatically a trauma response.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, and Abandonment

Moderate: Vomit, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

Minor: Medical content and Violence

juanat77's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Grief, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Blood, Sexual content, Chronic illness, Vomit, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Medical content, and Pregnancy