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4.26 AVERAGE
4.26 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Easy to read, still informative, relatable & made me cry
All in all; amazing
All in all; amazing
emotional
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
slow-paced
This book helped me realize I wasn't a normal straight person. I was asexual, not that I cringe at the idea of sex like the protagonist does, but I find myself absolutely uncaring about it. Cuddling >>>>
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
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:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
comfort read
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
I was going to do a full review for this, and maybe I will if I get round to annotating and tabbing the rest of the book, but for now this will have to do.
This was just not that enjoyable for me to read.
I'm not aromantic asexual. But I am somewhere on the asexual spectrum, and this just made me extremely uncomfortable to read. I mean, I'm really glad that so many people have seen themselves in this and feel represented. But for me personally, this just was not an enjoyable reading experience. Everything that Georgia does to have the 'real university experience' is so far from anything I would have done.
And I've been in her shoes. I went through school not having kissed anyone. I went through university doing the same. I thought I was broken. I thought that no one would ever love me and I'd die alone and I didn't know about asexuality because this was the early 2000s and I had never heard of that before. It took me until my thirties to realise there was a word for what I was.
I would never have experimented on friends. Ever. And while the idea of sex didn't disgust me, it never really appealed to me either. I can kind of understand Georgia's reactions, but the fact that she was so self-involved to believe that no one else ever had thoughts about sex and they had to be joking just made me stare at the page in disbelief.
And the treatment of Rooney was...not great. There are other reviews from other own voices reviewers about the way pansexuals were treated in this book and I would recommend you go and check those out before picking this book up.
I'm not sure I can give this three stars. Objectively, the writing wasn't terrible, and the plot was okay. But I don't have much positive to say about it right now, so I think it will be a two stars. My review and rating may change in the future.
This was just not that enjoyable for me to read.
I'm not aromantic asexual. But I am somewhere on the asexual spectrum, and this just made me extremely uncomfortable to read. I mean, I'm really glad that so many people have seen themselves in this and feel represented. But for me personally, this just was not an enjoyable reading experience. Everything that Georgia does to have the 'real university experience' is so far from anything I would have done.
And I've been in her shoes. I went through school not having kissed anyone. I went through university doing the same. I thought I was broken. I thought that no one would ever love me and I'd die alone and I didn't know about asexuality because this was the early 2000s and I had never heard of that before. It took me until my thirties to realise there was a word for what I was.
I would never have experimented on friends. Ever. And while the idea of sex didn't disgust me, it never really appealed to me either. I can kind of understand Georgia's reactions, but the fact that she was so self-involved to believe that no one else ever had thoughts about sex and they had to be joking just made me stare at the page in disbelief.
And the treatment of Rooney was...not great. There are other reviews from other own voices reviewers about the way pansexuals were treated in this book and I would recommend you go and check those out before picking this book up.
I'm not sure I can give this three stars. Objectively, the writing wasn't terrible, and the plot was okay. But I don't have much positive to say about it right now, so I think it will be a two stars. My review and rating may change in the future.