71 reviews for:

London Calling

Clare Lydon

3.16 AVERAGE

tjdallas7's review against another edition

4.0

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Another delightfully sweet story. Jess sure had some bad luck when it came to those ex's, lol, but it had a happy ending.

laurenhrenz's review against another edition

2.5

funny hopeful slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

oliviaemma27's review against another edition

3.0

lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Jess is an insufferable main character and it makes it very hard to root for her relationship. The only thing that’s worse is her ex Karen oh my God that woman is crazy she follows her to London and then turns up at her work and her house thinking she can win her back and doesn’t take no for an answer until the very end like have some self-respect. There was also a lot of stereotypes and it kind of felt like it was written more in 2004 rather than 2014.

pierogibro's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 6%

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slow and annoying

magicteabooks's review against another edition

2.0

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This book is slow paced and it felt like not much happened from beginning to end. I was expecting more form this novel. We don’t get to know the characters very well, which made the romance rather lacking.

lezreadalot's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

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I don't mind books where 'nothing happens'; love them actually. But this is dragging, the narrator for the audiobooks keeps taking this extremely deep, extremely audible breaths in between sentences and the protag just used a transphobic slur that went completely unchallenged. Washing my hands of this one.

katereads2much's review against another edition

2.0

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I don't know, I had a hard time connecting with this and pacing felt like it dragged.

lucymt92's review against another edition

2.0

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Eugh. Nearly dnf'd... not sure if it was the narrator or the content but struggled with this 

sapphics_reads's review against another edition

2.0

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This was honestly a hard listen for me, maybe it was the British narration that threw me off or maybe it was due to this just being a bad book lol.

Like I feel sorry for Lucy

seeing the girl she was dating kiss another girl and then that girls ex popping back up

but I do feel like she over reacted, especially at the wedding.

Also why was a STRAIGHT woman just throwing the word “dyke” around like nothing? (I get it’s set in 2010 and times were slightly different back then but it was very uncomfortable to hear as a lesbian) I also think the t slur was also said at one point :/

laughter_library's review against another edition

4.25

hopeful lighthearted 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: Yes