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theseventhl's review
4.0
It took me a while to warm up to Taylor, Theo, and Josey, but when the relationship clicked for me, it really clicked for me. An amazing story that shows the work that goes into a poly relationship, and is also a realistic depiction of what a young person might be thinking entering into a relationship with two other people for the first time. Plus, as per usual for Moskowitz novels, there are great character and family dynamics, smart engaging dialogue, and the story is expertly paced.
PS - I would absolutely perish for Josey, she's wonderful and I love her most of all.
PS - I would absolutely perish for Josey, she's wonderful and I love her most of all.
lmriese's review
3.0
So I really wanted to love this book but it kinda fell short in some areas. I've read Break by Hannah Moskowitz and loved it, I thought the plot was so original. I was specifically looking for books about polyamory, had a hard time finding anything interesting, gave up and just started looking at authors I previously read and enjoyed and ended up looking at Hannah's work and it felt like fate that she wrote a book about polyamory, and YA polyamory at that!
I do think the strengths of this book are all in the plot. It was totally original, I haven't read anything like it, there was a but of a twist that was kinda surprising but didn't feel forced at all, and it kept reading til the end. I think the way the different minor plots all make sense and all got the right amount of attention. I do wish that there was a little more depth to the story though, which I think could have been achieved with more developed characters.
Overall, I found the writing style to be fine, nothing crazy, pretty straightforward which I prefer. But my issue is with the characters. This focuses on the main character, Taylor, and I wish I could understand more of her motivation, I wish there had been more backstory to explain why her thoughts on her relationship. And in that way, I kinda felt like her jumping into the relationship was rather quick, not that I felt she needed to struggle with the choice, but just that I could have gotten more into her mind about it. And the same goes for the other characters, there's very little backstory given to them which was disappointing. I would have loved to have seen this book have rotating perspectives, especially since the three main characters have different family lives, it would have been great to see their first-hand experiences with their family.
Overall, I thought it was a nice quick read on a topic that was very interesting. I just felt it was lacking in general and would have loved to go deeper into the character's lives. Definitely read if you want to see polyamory done by teenagers, I felt like that aspect was handled very well, especially since the characters are so young, they had a very mature take on the whole thing.
I do think the strengths of this book are all in the plot. It was totally original, I haven't read anything like it, there was a but of a twist that was kinda surprising but didn't feel forced at all, and it kept reading til the end. I think the way the different minor plots all make sense and all got the right amount of attention. I do wish that there was a little more depth to the story though, which I think could have been achieved with more developed characters.
Overall, I found the writing style to be fine, nothing crazy, pretty straightforward which I prefer. But my issue is with the characters. This focuses on the main character, Taylor, and I wish I could understand more of her motivation, I wish there had been more backstory to explain why her thoughts on her relationship. And in that way, I kinda felt like her jumping into the relationship was rather quick, not that I felt she needed to struggle with the choice, but just that I could have gotten more into her mind about it. And the same goes for the other characters, there's very little backstory given to them which was disappointing. I would have loved to have seen this book have rotating perspectives, especially since the three main characters have different family lives, it would have been great to see their first-hand experiences with their family.
Overall, I thought it was a nice quick read on a topic that was very interesting. I just felt it was lacking in general and would have loved to go deeper into the character's lives. Definitely read if you want to see polyamory done by teenagers, I felt like that aspect was handled very well, especially since the characters are so young, they had a very mature take on the whole thing.
sarahlopod's review
4.0
okay so this was not particularly well-written (so many typos!) and i can see how it wouldn’t work for some people, but it was SUCH a cute polyam YA romance novel. it was really wonderful to see such great rep that explicitly used the term ‘polyamory’ and showed a healthy (cute!) relationship.
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isabelisalright's review
4.0
This book has such an amazing story. It really puts you in the place of growing up and figuring it all out.
Biggest problem was the editing. Various typos and odd sentence structures.
I still think the story is worth reading but be prepared for the few mistakes that stand out in the current edition.
Biggest problem was the editing. Various typos and odd sentence structures.
I still think the story is worth reading but be prepared for the few mistakes that stand out in the current edition.
dominicanbookworm's review
3.0
Yo pensaba que mi favorita escribiendo relaciones era Rainbow Rowell, pero Hannah Moskowitz le hace competencia.
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Amé mal a Josey, necesitaba que pasará más con ella y Taylor. También me gustó mucho como se describió y exploró la relación entre ambas y Theo, además de lo mucho que Taylor fue creciendo al final del libro y las fantásticas relaciones familiares y de amistad que habían a lo largo de la historia. Y yay latinxs!rosadelexie's review
5.0
I am absolutely in love with this book. The characters, the family dynamics, and the dialogue were all so amazing and realistic. The way Taylor thought felt so realistic to me, I felt like I was literally in the head of a confused and worried junior in high school.
This is only my second Hannah Moskowitz book (I read Not Otherwise Specified not too long ago and absolutely loved it) but Hannah is easily one of my favorite authors. As I mentioned before, her characterization is amazing. She just has this way of making every single character seem incredibly interesting without making them all seem over-the-top unique or special. She has some normal characters that are as average and normal as can be, but they are still interesting because she writes them interestingly. The characters speak, act, and look like normal, realistic, yet interesting people, which I find so incredibly pleasing.
This book has so much heart, and so much love. The family dynamics were amazing, and the relationship between Taylor and her mom was so loving. The polyamorous relationship was so so so and I was absolutely in love with their love. Josey/Taylor/Theo is probably one of my all time favorite ships, I just couldn't get enough of them.
Don't you just love them?
All in all, I loved this book, and I highly recommend it.
This is only my second Hannah Moskowitz book (I read Not Otherwise Specified not too long ago and absolutely loved it) but Hannah is easily one of my favorite authors. As I mentioned before, her characterization is amazing. She just has this way of making every single character seem incredibly interesting without making them all seem over-the-top unique or special. She has some normal characters that are as average and normal as can be, but they are still interesting because she writes them interestingly. The characters speak, act, and look like normal, realistic, yet interesting people, which I find so incredibly pleasing.
This book has so much heart, and so much love. The family dynamics were amazing, and the relationship between Taylor and her mom was so loving. The polyamorous relationship was so so so and I was absolutely in love with their love. Josey/Taylor/Theo is probably one of my all time favorite ships, I just couldn't get enough of them.
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Take this small passage for example,"Don't look at me," Josey says. "She's your girlfriend."
"Yeah, now she's my girlfriend," Theo says. "When she wins swim meets it's all our girlfriend is so amazing, isn't she, Theo, but as soon as she confuses you again she's all my problem again."
Don't you just love them?
All in all, I loved this book, and I highly recommend it.
brittanyallyn's review
4.0
(This book has a crazy amount of spelling errors, wrong words, words being switched, and pronouns being wrong, to the point where I occasionally had to reread sentences a couple of times in order to figure out who was doing what, and the ebooks formatting was very strange, paragraphs started almost halfway across the page and didn't always line up when there was rapid dialogue.)
More of a 4.5, maybe 4.75. Really really enjoyed. I've never read a book featuring polyamory, not from lack of interest but from lack of then existing, at least in YA form, so it had that going for it. I loved the characters, I loved their senses of humor and their dynamics, not just between Taylor, Theo, and Josey, but other characters as well. The varying familial relationships were surprising and welcome, specifically the one between Taylor and Lucas, who are in the weird space of sharing a step sibling but having no real connection themselves. I also love that Taylor and Theo's relationship had a very real level of awkwardness, YA sometimes glosses over how awkward teens can be but this book didn't. I will say though, the summary had me expecting the relationship between Taylor and Josey to be quite different from what it turned out to be, and while I did really like the way it was, I was a little disappointed. Really great book despite that though.
More of a 4.5, maybe 4.75. Really really enjoyed. I've never read a book featuring polyamory, not from lack of interest but from lack of then existing, at least in YA form, so it had that going for it. I loved the characters, I loved their senses of humor and their dynamics, not just between Taylor, Theo, and Josey, but other characters as well. The varying familial relationships were surprising and welcome, specifically the one between Taylor and Lucas, who are in the weird space of sharing a step sibling but having no real connection themselves. I also love that Taylor and Theo's relationship had a very real level of awkwardness, YA sometimes glosses over how awkward teens can be but this book didn't. I will say though, the summary had me expecting the relationship between Taylor and Josey to be quite different from what it turned out to be, and while I did really like the way it was, I was a little disappointed. Really great book despite that though.
marita379's review
5.0
Okay look. This is not my favorite Hannah Moskowitz. BUT if you think i will give any book about polyamorous teenagers and A POLYAMOROUS FAMILY anything but five stars
boy you dont know me at all
STILL THOUGH: A GOOD BOOK TO EXIST
boy you dont know me at all
STILL THOUGH: A GOOD BOOK TO EXIST
hortoncanthearawho's review
5.0
I stumbled upon this book accidentally through an LGBTQIA book list and became enamoured by the plot line. I had my heart set on reading this book the moment I found out it had a properly represented polyamorous relationship and not just one that portrays it as over-sexualised and simply involving threesomes. This book and the characters in it are written so beautifully - the three-dimensional quirks and personalities each of them get in their storylines makes them utterly relatable and loveable and *shock horror* allows them to be portrayed like they're in a proper relationship (because weirdly enough, that's exactly what a poly relationship is!).
I became doubly set on reading this book when I realised that Hannah Moskowitz was also the author of one of my current favourite books ('Sick Kids in Love'), because I knew that if she could write about chronic illness in a way that makes it not only respectful, but also realistic while managing to keep away from 'inspiration porn', then I knew she would do polyamory justice.
I love this book and everything it represents and I ended up buying the book because I knew I'd want to read it again!
Only downside is that the book is actually super hard to get a hold of - not sure if that's because I'm Australian and it's just not sold or available here, but the only place I could find it was on Kindle so I had to read it as an ebook - not that it bothered me too much! Just a warning to future readers!
I became doubly set on reading this book when I realised that Hannah Moskowitz was also the author of one of my current favourite books ('Sick Kids in Love'), because I knew that if she could write about chronic illness in a way that makes it not only respectful, but also realistic while managing to keep away from 'inspiration porn', then I knew she would do polyamory justice.
I love this book and everything it represents and I ended up buying the book because I knew I'd want to read it again!
Only downside is that the book is actually super hard to get a hold of - not sure if that's because I'm Australian and it's just not sold or available here, but the only place I could find it was on Kindle so I had to read it as an ebook - not that it bothered me too much! Just a warning to future readers!