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Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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antonia_oana19's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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paperbacksandvinyl's review

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challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I am UNWELL. Book two in the Aristotle and Dante universe follows the boys into their senior year of high, but we get the whole summer to see them fall more in love. It is such a beautiful exploration of first love and friendship, and just the human experience in general. It was honestly so different from what I imagined and my hurt was broken and stitched together, REPEATEDLY!!

Being so serious, I haven’t cried like this in ages, but this book wrecked me. One of the most beautiful books I’ve read, maybe ever. I know I will carry this story and these characters with me for a very long time 🥹

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marisa_kingsley77's review

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challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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ronan900's review

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emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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jasmineslibraryy's review

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

almost DNF'd, really glad i didn't

this sequel was kinda unnecessary in my opinion but it was beautiful. ari has one of the most beautiful character arcs i've ever read. the first one is still miles better but i still thoroughly enjoyed this!

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lennie_reads's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

Thank you to Netgalley & Simon and Schuster Children's Books UK for this ARC.

Full disclosure - I waited so long to read the arc that I read the finished printed version.

I was so so happy when Saenz annoucned that we had a sequel to the first book.
Whilst I i love the first one, after a re-read it reminded me that we really don't see much of happy Ari or Ari & Dante actually together. And we only experience things through Ari's narrow and unreliable lens.

Despite the books being written 10 years apart, Saenz seems to be able to dive immediately back into Ari's head so it genuinely doesn't feel like any time has passed from book 1 to book 2. (Pun not intended but I'm keeping it!)

In this book we see a much happier Ari who is finally accepting himself and accepting love from his friends, family and Dante.
Although the two still have to navigate rampant homophobia during the AIDS pandemic, racism and the more 'usual' teenage struggles of college and a possible long distance relationship.

This book also seems to delve into different types of relationships, different types of love, and how they're all important in their own ways.

I love the way Saenz write: it just flows so well whilst also being so poignant and beautiful.

This book also confirmed my theory of Ari being demisexual. It doesn't say it anywhere explicitly but istg he is the most demisexual coded character ever.

If you loved the first book then you 100% should read this one. It'll give you the more fleshed out HFN whilst also getting to know the characters more, especially now that Ari's perspectives have been opened up so his perceptions of people are more 3D.

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ccee's review

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emotional sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Off-kilter sequel to one of The YA Books Ever. Nothing really happened, Ari and Dante’s relationship did not have any further development. Random introduction of characters, ensemble cast did not lend itself well to this world.

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