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karlapardo'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
Graphic: Sexual content, Body shaming, and Fatphobia
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Toxic friendship, Infidelity, and Alcohol
lifeofchrstnlvly's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
- This could have been 150 pages shorter.
- Insecurity is different from self-criticism without reason. Stevie is a perfect example of the latter. It took me almost five months to finish this simple romance book due to Stevie's persistent "woe is me" attitude, which I found annoying. Note to Stevie: the world does not revolve around you.
- Bad writing. Liz Tomforde consistently stated the obvious. For example,
when Stevie's dad was explaining that her maternal grandmother was harsh to Stevie's mom, leading to Stevie's mom's similar behavior towards Stevie. He was discussing the difficulties for Stevie's mom and hinting at generational trauma. However, in the next paragraph, Stevie's dad explicitly labels it as generational trauma. Such repetition was not a one-time thing and it became frustrating. It seemed as if Tomforde underestimated the readers' ability to understand the narrative without explicit explanations. An author should trust their eloquence to convey the message to the audience. This led me to speculate that Tomforde lacked confidence in her explanatory skills, hence the need to state the obvious.
Bonus: “Pop/s a shoulder” or “shoulders pop/popping” was mentioned 15 times. Why can't you come up with a more fitting adjective to describe something like that?
Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content
Moderate: Body shaming and Abandonment
Minor: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood
caprireads215'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
4.0
Graphic: Body shaming
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Death of parent, Violence, and Toxic friendship
kirstenpod_'s review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Fatphobia, Sexual content, and Body shaming
Moderate: Toxic relationship and Abandonment
Minor: Toxic friendship and Alcohol
lethridge'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? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Abandonment, Animal death, Body shaming, and Emotional abuse
graceev's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence
Moderate: Infidelity
Minor: Mental illness
kb33's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, and Sexual content
Moderate: Abandonment
Minor: Animal death, Alcohol, Infidelity, and Bullying
brandie_abbie19'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? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Abandonment, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, and Body shaming
Moderate: Violence
ecravens's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Abandonment, Bullying, Sexual content, and Grief
frantically'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? Yes
5.0
The relationship was so so good but mainly it was so real and godddd, these two really had me on the edge of my seat, fighting for them in the end 😭😭
Like, is the third-act-breakup realistic? Yes. Did they both have good reasons for acting like they did? Also yes. Did that make it hurt any less? NO
liz i will be sending u my therapy bills
Truly, one of the best plus-size MC's I've read in SO long and like everything else, it was just so realistic. Yes, Stevie does love her body sometimes. But sometimes she hates it. Because that's what life as a plus-size woman is like! *cue to me crying*
As I said, in the end there were some.....moments that weren't it for me, there were so many missed chance and those things just infuriate me lmao so this probably isn't like a 5 stars more like a 4.75?? Or still a 5 i can't decide
But stillll, the breakup was healthy! Love that for them
As soon as I got over the 40% mark, I really spent every moment thinking about reading this book, so yes, would definitely recommend!
Still don't believe romances need to be longer than 300pgs but for Stevie and Zee, I'll forgive it.
Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, Sexual content, Abandonment, Alcohol, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Bullying
Moderate: Emotional abuse
Minor: Mental illness, Animal death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail