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Forward March by Skye Quinlan

2 reviews

fanboyriot's review

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emotional 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

5.0

Sapphic
Asexual Rep
Boarding School
Friends to Lovers
Bandmates to Lovers

(First Person POV)

I absolutely loved this book.  The characters, the romance, Margot's energy and comments, very much here for it.

I went into it knowing nearly nothing about it other than it was a queer contemporary book, so the asexual rep was such a nice surprise.

Following Harper through the stress of always having to be what her parents wanted or never being able to do things because her mom was the dean of the school and her dad running for president.

I can say with confidence that I hated Harper's mom, so much.  I also wasn't a fan of her dad but when Harper needed him he was there in the end, even if he did use her to better his family man image.

Love how conservative parents raise the gayest/queerest children ever.  It was such a nice plot twist with Ben (or McDreamy, whichever works better).

The friendships were written SO well.  There were ups and downs and lots of drama with some, they were complicated.  And as much as I hate several of Harper's friends it was nice to see how she approached some of the issues they caused her.  Lets just say Harper is a lot nicer than I would have been near the end of the book.

This book was so well written and I really enjoyed it.  I also enjoyed the Grey's Anatomy reference when Harper's dad was like: "She's our child, and this is—it's don't be so goddamn thickheaded." (Chapter 27, Page 226) it made me think about that one episode of Grey's Anatomy (S12,E01) which was a favorite of mine.

So basically, 10/10 loved everything and I will most likely read this again.
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shaipanda's review

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hopeful fast-paced
  • 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

3.25

I really enjoyed the first half of three quarters of this book for the most part but really didn’t like the ending for the most part
like someone else’s review was saying, they could have easily just had it be Evelyn without bringing Nadia and Bellamy into it. Also I will say that I predicted it would be Evelyn from the beginning so it wasn’t exactly a surprise but I did nottt predict the other two and really think it could have done without that.  Also I’m kinda proud of myself that I predicted Christian was going to be queer from the beginning lol but I really loved the relationship between him and Ben - definitely one of my favorite parts
overall I enjoyed this and enjoyed some of the character relationships but overall wasn’t something I loved and I do wish we got to see more of what happens after high school in the epilogue etc 
Edit: also I just went to look at the content warnings cause there are always a lot I forget and apparently the ones for this book are author approved which is good whatever except the author didn’t mention like a lottt of really important ones? Like outing or medical content which are majorrr in that book like wtf - sorry that just pissed me off a lot 
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