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Alles wat ik weet over liefde by Dolly Alderton

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katielizroy's review against another edition

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emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

cathybooks's review against another edition

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emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

abbyt152's review against another edition

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hopeful reflective medium-paced

2.75

Eh. While I am 22.5, the “essential read for your 20s” doesn’t really apply to me for a variety of reasons and I sort of wanted to punch the author at a few moments. I would be incredibly interested in Alderton’s fiction, though.

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

This is why female friendships are so so important. Loved this!

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dark inspiring tense slow-paced

2.5

I appreciate the message of this book. At its core it’s about learning to love yourself and accepting yourself for who you are. Learning not to focus on the romantic relationships but the friendships that are still full of love.

Unfortunately, this advice is only focused on for the last 20% of the book. This advice felt thought out and based on experience and quite valuable. The rest of the book is moments from the author's adolescence and twenties. It was interesting to see someone with similar anxieties to myself approach their problems in a vastly different way. I think their journey wasn’t relatable but educational. It removed any FOMO I've had about not being a partier in high school or college.

Overall, I felt disconnected from these anecdotes and wasn’t really invested in the author's story. It wasn’t until the advice section pulled everything together that I felt this book have the impact it was attempting to have.