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Disappoint Me

Nicola Dinan

4.22 AVERAGE

megansreview's review

4.25

emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

beckyog's review

4.5

emotional funny reflective

kayleighroyston's review against another edition

Disappoint Me tells the story of Max, a trans woman and Vincent, her current boyfriend but as a 19 year old taking a gap year in a back-and-forth narrative.
I think that Maxs portion of the story held more value and was easier to relate to but we find out why Vincent had such a backstory. Max was so complex and evolving and in some ways, I feel like Vincent fell flat in comparison. You could see the person he grew up to be through Maxs' narrative but there were gaps that won't make sense until the end.
Outside of Max and Vincent, other characters such as Simone and Fred offer very little to the story until the end but the conversations are vibrant and full.
Dinan explores the relationships between friend groups, trans acceptance and navigation, and forgiveness in a really fluid way and once I committed to sitting down and finishing this book, it was a pretty seamless read.

Thank you to Netgalley for the advance review copy.

agsharf's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-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: Complicated

keelymclavin's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

fynn_jls's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful 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

Plesantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this (cause I didn't love Nicola Dinans first book).

But I found the book a bit aimless in parts. There was a lot going on but I feel like that also made the characters feel very human. It didn't have a lot of central plot line, but I still liked the book a lot. Really enjoyed Max's character development. Overall an enjoyable, interesting read.

About forgiveness and growth and how well we know the people we love. And about change and in what way we can really change.

I like that we never found out much about Max's body, that her "physical transness" wasn't made into a spectacle

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