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My Oxford Year

Julia Whelan

3.81 AVERAGE

abeebittle's review against another edition

4.75

emotional funny lighthearted 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

sydneyfriend's review against another edition

3.0

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

katec601's review against another edition

4.0

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

danigmzr's review against another edition

3.25

emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

nickimonkey's review against another edition

4.0

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Movie review: 

It was sweet. Didn’t make me cry like a lot of people 

Book review: 

Coming Soon 

andyj23's review against another edition

3.0

challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

bookish_boy_mom's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

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🎥🎧 Book & Movie Review 🎧🎥

My Oxford Year
Julia Whelan
Publishing Date: April 24, 2018

🎧 Narrator: Julia Whelan 🎧

“𝐼𝓉’𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝒾𝒸𝑒𝓈 𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝒶𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓇𝑒.”

As you all know Julia Whelan is my favorite narrator. I’ve been wanting to read one of her books and the release of the movie for this one finally gave me the push I needed.

And I really loved it. Julia’s writing was really beautiful. I enjoyed the story. I thought the connection, tension, and build up to a relationship with the characters was well done. I loved the banter between the two of them. There was the right amount of emotion and emotional connection for me as a reader. And I really loved the way things wrapped up. 

🎧 Julia Whelan narrates and of course she’s absolutely flawless. 

🎥 Movie Thoughts - 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐬𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧! 🚨

Well… the book is better. As always. The movie did not give me the same emotional connection to and for the characters. I did not like that the political aspect was taken out. And I absolutely hated the ending. I’m going to just pretend this didn’t happen and let myself live in the Julia Whelan version. 

julia_zaiger's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny reflective 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: Yes

davidserrins's review against another edition

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I was not attracted to anything about this story. The narrator didn't seem to like the characters and I didn't like any of the characters.

fernpalafox's review against another edition

3.5

emotional hopeful slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No