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3.18 AVERAGE
3.18 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Moderate: Grief, Alcohol
Minor: Death, Infidelity, Sexual content
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Cute but nothing earth shattering.
The MC was a bit boring, the coin flipping made it interesting but his personality was really vanilla. I liked his friends Jessie and Jake(s) a lot more. Even the rival team Quizlamic Extremists were more interesting, though the author failed to give the count of members or names or genders or anything really. Sunflower girl wasn't as appealing but the hunt for her was fun enough.
The MC was a bit boring, the coin flipping made it interesting but his personality was really vanilla. I liked his friends Jessie and Jake(s) a lot more. Even the rival team Quizlamic Extremists were more interesting, though the author failed to give the count of members or names or genders or anything really. Sunflower girl wasn't as appealing but the hunt for her was fun enough.
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
DNF'd 30% and one star.
There are really needless fatphobia / derogatory stereotypes of fat people and sex workers in this book.
For example, after a supremely shitty night, the MC is "trapped" next to a "supremely large man" smashing down "Sainsbury's meal deal" (which I assume is like a KFC combo) in a really lazy attempt to emphasise how "horrid" his night has been - but babes, we were there, seeing you lose your girlfriend, your job, your home. Why can't he just be on a bus, going home, alone? Why bring a stereotypical depiction of a fat person into this?
Premise was interesting, delivery fell flat.
There are really needless fatphobia / derogatory stereotypes of fat people and sex workers in this book.
For example, after a supremely shitty night, the MC is "trapped" next to a "supremely large man" smashing down "Sainsbury's meal deal" (which I assume is like a KFC combo) in a really lazy attempt to emphasise how "horrid" his night has been - but babes, we were there, seeing you lose your girlfriend, your job, your home. Why can't he just be on a bus, going home, alone? Why bring a stereotypical depiction of a fat person into this?
Premise was interesting, delivery fell flat.
Ugh... The plot seemed to be put together by stringing comedic scenes together. I didn't find it convincing or funny.
And the main character is aimless, feckless, and has no personality. He is boring and shallow.
And the main character is aimless, feckless, and has no personality. He is boring and shallow.
The flip side by James Bailey was such a fun and great story to read.
I enjoyed the writing, the characters and the overall life experience of Josh with his turning point in life when the decisions he has to take aren’t quite the best thing he ever has done in his life.
I loved the banter and how reliable the situations are, how sometimes he left a downhill moment to take over his life and how the author has managed to show both sides of the coin with the good and bad things that can come from that fear of taking each chapter as it comes.
I highly recommend this book and it’s just perfect for the long summer nights.
This was never-ending. I should have DNFed it at about 10%, and that would have been too generous. But, for some reason, it's been popping up in my recommendations a lot, so I stuck with it just to make sure I would never attempt to pick it up again.
To be fair, the premise, although gimmicky, allowed for the possibility of the book being fun - if it had interesting characters and was written better, probably by somebody else. It was just clear from about 10%, that the possibility was missed here.
The main character is self-centered empty-headed emotionally stilted wannabe hipster with no substance, no character and no positive or redeeming qualities whatsoever. Despite the incessant navel gazing, he has zero selfawareness and, predictably, even less capacity for perception, compassion or understanding towards anyone else. Exhibit A: he buys a pet rabbit on a whim, because it would sound cool as a commitment gesture, bemoans the fact that he can't return the pet after his girlfriend dumps him, and spends the rest of the novel foisting the poor animal onto his friends and relatives as he traipses around Europe on his "romantic" adventures.
It might have been a good place to start a book in which a character grows or develops in some way, but this is not one of such books. This is a self-congratulatory wish-fulfillment in which the main character persists in his most idiotic and unlikable behaviors and notions, but ends up magically reciprocated in his insta-love with a typical manic pixie dream girl. Oh, and let's not forget that he also gets financial stability - not because he gets a job or even attempts to do something useful with himself, but because his favorite grandfather dies and leaves him some money, which he decides to promptly spend on aimlessly traveling the world in the company of the above-mentioned manic pixie dream girl.
The rest of the characters are either the same or considerably worse, at least as seen through the eyes of the main character who is also our first person POV - oh joy!
While I do not think the book was written with malicious intent, it felt implicitly offensive in the way it perpetuated the most pointless, faulty and disgusting notions of what is romantic or kind or nice.
To be fair, the premise, although gimmicky, allowed for the possibility of the book being fun - if it had interesting characters and was written better, probably by somebody else. It was just clear from about 10%, that the possibility was missed here.
The main character is self-centered empty-headed emotionally stilted wannabe hipster with no substance, no character and no positive or redeeming qualities whatsoever. Despite the incessant navel gazing, he has zero selfawareness and, predictably, even less capacity for perception, compassion or understanding towards anyone else. Exhibit A: he buys a pet rabbit on a whim, because it would sound cool as a commitment gesture, bemoans the fact that he can't return the pet after his girlfriend dumps him, and spends the rest of the novel foisting the poor animal onto his friends and relatives as he traipses around Europe on his "romantic" adventures.
It might have been a good place to start a book in which a character grows or develops in some way, but this is not one of such books. This is a self-congratulatory wish-fulfillment in which the main character persists in his most idiotic and unlikable behaviors and notions, but ends up magically reciprocated in his insta-love with a typical manic pixie dream girl. Oh, and let's not forget that he also gets financial stability - not because he gets a job or even attempts to do something useful with himself, but because his favorite grandfather dies and leaves him some money, which he decides to promptly spend on aimlessly traveling the world in the company of the above-mentioned manic pixie dream girl.
The rest of the characters are either the same or considerably worse, at least as seen through the eyes of the main character who is also our first person POV - oh joy!
While I do not think the book was written with malicious intent, it felt implicitly offensive in the way it perpetuated the most pointless, faulty and disgusting notions of what is romantic or kind or nice.