Reviews with content warning for Cancer - A Thousand Boy Kisses

Didn't build the relationship enough, described the relationship but didnt let you feel it. Spent too much time describing their kisses and their sadness. Too too too many time jumps. Kind of overly religious. EPILOGUE SUCKED! Disappointing

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emotional lighthearted reflective sad medium-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

3.75

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taraaleitz's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

4.5⭐️/5

Cry count: 19.

This book reminds me of a fanfiction that I would’ve read in middle school, but in the best way possible. The simple language and the romance is what reminds me of it, but this is such a sweet story. The bad-boy comments made me cringe, but the sweetness of the rest of the book outweighs it.

This is a YA book, but I—a 24 year old woman—enjoyed this thoroughly and cried a good amount.

And the epilogue… oh man. Didn’t quite expect that, though it isn’t unpredictable. Good stuff.

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readyforit's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

2⭐️2💧
Why is it that in every YA book that gets popular one of the MC

dies?

I expected to be sad. I didn’t expect for these teenagers to be depressed and serious about everything for the ENTIRE BOOK. There is no levity to balance out the morosity anywhere in the entire 13 hours of audiobook. Teenagers still laugh and joke through the pain, in fact I’d argue they mostly use humor to cope! There was no realism in this book whatsoever. Of course poppy would be a good enough cellist to play in Carnegie hall. Of course rune would be a good enough amateur photographer to get into NYU tisch.

Wtf was with the epilogue?? Rune

lives about another ten years after poppy dies and then dies suddenly and we find out he never moved on or even kissed another girl bc he promised poppy?? He wakes up in their version of heaven and is only thinking of seeing her again, not of the family and friends he left behind. HUH

This book has so much religious imagery in it. Lots of talk about heaven and everything happening for a reason.

Poppy’s narrator was pretty good, but rune’s narrator mostly yelled at me during his chapters.

Lastly, why did they choose the

cancer notorious for its very good survival rate? Why not pick a more deadly cancer if she was going to die young anyway?

I had a hunch I should’ve DNFed at 20% and 50% and I was right.

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