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stacyaj's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Death and Grief
avasbookmark's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Grief and Injury/Injury detail
lbracs's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
Moderate: Grief
mari1532's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Synopsis: In High School Emma Blair dreamed of a life as far away from her hometown as possible. And when she goes to a party in her junior year of high school she encounters the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with, Jesse. After almost a decade of dating and a single year of marriage though fate intervenes and the only man Emma has ever loved is gone forever.
As Emma tries to put her life back together she has to challenge everything she thought she knew about herself. As she begins to forage a new identity for herself she also wants to love again and her high school friend Sam might be just the man to teach her that she can.
Thoughts:
I also wish that Sam had made more of an appearance in the story. Reid did an excellent job of conveying how much Emma loves and cares for Sam, but I would have liked to see them interact a little more throughout the story.
I absolutely did not like Jesse at all. Start to finish. Did I feel bad for him because of the horrific things he endured, sure did. Did it make me like him any better? Sure didn't.
This is an interesting work of literature that held my attention and I was really invested in the outcome. Although it did feel that the cultural standards of domesticity were the driving force of some of Emma's decisions rather than a shifting of her priorities. Overall, not a bad read.
Graphic: Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Toxic relationship
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
lindasoderlundd's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Death, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual content and Alcohol
Minor: Cancer and Suicidal thoughts
const_elle_ations's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Sexual content and Grief
Minor: Blood
kaitlinlovesbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Infidelity and Grief
Minor: Death, Sexual content, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
jaidenmarie11's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Death and Grief
Moderate: Sexual content
imaginationindex's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
- Emma’s mom and dad are my favourite characters! So supportive and understanding and they made me cry twice even with everything else going on
- How Acton, MA was written. It holds a very special place for TJR and you can tell
- On the total opposite end, how Emma’s grief was written was just… 🤯
- On top of the family themes… Sisterly themes
- Bookstore vibes!! I wanna be the Bookkeepers’ Daughter 🥲😭
- Jesse. It’s awful what this fictional man went through but my red-flag-alert was going OFF. Teenage Jesse, Twenty-something Jesse, Survivor Jesse… I didn’t like him. AND he left for a trip on their one year anniversary, no sir, that doesn’t fly.
I knew she wouldn’t end up with him. - … also Sam… at times. It helped I was picturing Simu Liu from the adaption but the way he acted at times
technically kicking her out, “don’t call me”… yikes - I’m not a fan of this type of love triangle trope with a side of dead partners. Honest to god stressed me out thinking of these two men guilting Emma.
- And this specific moment near the end
it took 3 days for Jesse and Emma to realize they wouldn’t be together but even after that decision… they still slept together… and Sam was okay with this??!?
Graphic: Grief
val_theburrowofstories'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: Death, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual content and Suicidal thoughts