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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
What happens when a friendship ends? This YA novel explores the heartache, regret and angst.
I received this book as an ARC through NetGalley. I gave this book 3 stars because if you look at how long it took me to read, that’s the main reason for the star rating. This book kept losing my interest. I finally finished and here’s what I thought about the book.
Overall it was an “ok” read. The main 2 characters, I thought was secretly in love with each other by how they reacted to each other but turned out to be genuine friends. I didn’t like how the story ended. I left with the feeling of “that’s it!? After all that I read, that’s the ending that they have?” I was disappointed in that aspect.
The book talked about friendship, divorce, and bullying. I would recommend this to young readers, ages 12 - 16.
Overall it was an “ok” read. The main 2 characters, I thought was secretly in love with each other by how they reacted to each other but turned out to be genuine friends. I didn’t like how the story ended. I left with the feeling of “that’s it!? After all that I read, that’s the ending that they have?” I was disappointed in that aspect.
The book talked about friendship, divorce, and bullying. I would recommend this to young readers, ages 12 - 16.
This is a book that I really wish I had taken some notes while I was listening. I honestly am not a huge Shakespeare fan (shhh) but this book made me want to give Shakespeare another chance! So many thoughtful themes and a fun storyline. I definitely want to reread this one!
I haven’t read many books that explore the loss of a friendship and I thought this book did a great job with the topic!
YALLLLLLLL.
Sitting here teary eyed trying not to bawl. Friend breakups are the worst, and so real, and so raw, and so painful. They are portrayed in an incredible way that gave me all the feels and if it weren’t for the moments of hope with the fictional world’s most handsome and perfect YA male MC (which he wouldn’t like to be called because it is a story I’m spinning about him and in his friend’s words would be brain-Dom...but if he’s fictional it can all be brain-Don...right?) I digress. If it weren’t for him and some of the hurtful now...I don’t think I could have made it through the then.
The characters are flawed and beautiful and everything.
Also, can I go to NYC right now. And at Christmas. Can I move there and teach hs English? Or be a high schooler in AP English.
So much nostalgia for friends and growing pins.
Gah. That is all.
Such a good read. So many feels.
Sitting here teary eyed trying not to bawl. Friend breakups are the worst, and so real, and so raw, and so painful. They are portrayed in an incredible way that gave me all the feels and if it weren’t for the moments of hope with the fictional world’s most handsome and perfect YA male MC (which he wouldn’t like to be called because it is a story I’m spinning about him and in his friend’s words would be brain-Dom...but if he’s fictional it can all be brain-Don...right?) I digress. If it weren’t for him and some of the hurtful now...I don’t think I could have made it through the then.
The characters are flawed and beautiful and everything.
Also, can I go to NYC right now. And at Christmas. Can I move there and teach hs English? Or be a high schooler in AP English.
So much nostalgia for friends and growing pins.
Gah. That is all.
Such a good read. So many feels.
I wish I’d had this book in high school. Female friend breakups are one of the most painful experiences ever, especially when you are seventeen. I’ve never seen a book about that experience before until this one. It’s so needed & the book portrayed the experience so well.
Sometimes the plot got a little muddled, but overall I really enjoyed the story. Cleo was a great teenage protagonist because she was so dumb sometimes which is so realistic
Sometimes the plot got a little muddled, but overall I really enjoyed the story. Cleo was a great teenage protagonist because she was so dumb sometimes which is so realistic
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Favorite Quote:
I lost myself in books because they were friends who never let me down, and I didn’t hide enough of myself the way everyone else did, so people didn’t 'get' me. I was lonely a lot.
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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- hodně jsem brečela
oblíbené citáty:
- četla jsem to v době, kdy jsem se hodně ztotožňovala s pocity hlavní postavy
- hodně jsem brečela
oblíbené citáty:
Everything feels like a memory in the snow, but in the sun, everything feels new.
I think I’m only realizing now that every friendship is an island. Willa and Sydney’s relationship doesn’t have anything to do with what’s between me and Willa or how much I care about Sydney. We are all important to each other in different but similar ways, and that’s all that matters.
I became friends with Layla while I wasn’t watching, and we fell apart that way too, but with Willa and Sydney, every piece of us has been a choice.
I will choose them every day that they choose me back, and I’ll be the best friend I can. So I tell them more about me and Dom in his dark, empty house, happy with who we all are to each other right now.
I felt like I needed to figure out how to be alone without being lonely. Today seemed like the perfect opportunity to do just that—to spend some quality time with myself. I mean, Sartre wrote Hell is other people for a reason.
I turn and walk away from my favorite person, away from my favorite place, to the person I normally avoid at all costs and the place I like least, knowing that at least I can trust her to do me the small kindness of telling me the actual truth.
And aren’t we all a little bit in love with our best friends?