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wisewayfarer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Cursing, Grief, Car accident, and Blood
Moderate: Biphobia
ofpagesandparagraphs's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Blood, and Car accident
theyellowbrickreader's review against another edition
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Cursing
jourdanicus's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Blood, Car accident, Cursing, Death, and Grief
Minor: Alcohol, Biphobia, and Injury/Injury detail
ekg's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Grief and Car accident
Minor: Domestic abuse and Cursing
sib_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Car accident
Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, and Blood
Minor: Child death, Cursing, Drug use, Infidelity, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence
amandalorianxo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Death, Cursing, and Infidelity
Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Blood
lettuce_read's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Homophobia, Grief, Cursing, Biphobia, Death, and Sexual content
Moderate: Car accident and Suicidal thoughts
nataliereadz's review against another edition
- 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
Let's just preface this with "romance is NOT my thing". While marketed as one, this book is so.much.more. than that. It's a gripping, heart wrenching, trip through the trial and error and messy in betweens of working through grief, pain, loss and emotional recovery. While it is heated and loaded with romance (thankfully not the cheesy kind), it's full of relatable characters with equally as relatably messy lives, and a ton of laughter (read: Joy! I want her as my best friend!). This story and its characters are seductive, sensual and so, SO, complex.
This is my second Emezi read, and while they moved me with The Death of Vivek Oji, this time, they comfortably cracked me open and left me in a puddle on the floor.
Emezi is a masterful storyteller. Their writing is all consuming and totally hypnotic. More than a handful of times I found myself closing my eyes after reading one of the many poignant lines throughout, just to savour it for a moment longer.
The only negative is that it wasnt 600 pages long. I could have lived in this story for that many more.
Exquisite!
Graphic: Death, Car accident, Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content
puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Death, Sexual content, and Grief
Moderate: Cursing, Alcohol, and Death of parent
Minor: Homophobia, Drug use, and Violence