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This has been on my tbr pile for a while and I have finally got to it. It is an excellent story about a girl who is fostered and how she came to be where she is...and so much more!The characters are real and honest and the book had me hooked immediately. My only regret is I hadn't read it sooner.

pages_rewritten's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

jesswoods's review against another edition

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3.0

Similar to Eleanor and Park but very good!

rebecca_hedger's review against another edition

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3.0

I liked the characters and the relationship, but I wanted more to happen, and sometimes had to read descriptions a few times before I understood what was being said.

netania's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted slow-paced

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

3.0

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sweetestwindmill's review against another edition

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1.0

Ah, I wanted so much to enjoy Indigo Donut! I usually love this kind of quirky, young adult romance about two people from very different backgrounds connecting, but something about this book just didn't fall into place for me.

We meet Indigo and Bailey - one living with her foster mother after a complex and difficult childhood, and the other relatively privileged yet still an outsider. And I think it was here that the problem really originated: I just didn't like either of them. Bailey was irritatingly weak, with no real sense of morality and a wishy-washy approach to the world. Indigo was hard as nails - and bratty. It's difficult, because they're both teenagers and teenagers aren't supposed to be super mature or even super likable (I was definitely the most horrid teenager in existence) but I just couldn't get on with either of them.

I didn't like the plotline which basically had Bailey lying to Indigo from the word go. Although they clearly had chemistry, I didn't feel that they spent enough time together for it to really flourish into a romance I could root for. I hated the sex scene - they truly did not feel ready for that kind of intensity, and I just wanted to give them both some time to recover from the damage they had put each other through. I thought the plot as a whole was fairly weak - there were so many different strands that no individual one could be given enough attention, such as

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the affair Bailey's mother had supposedly been having, which apparently turned out to actually be an affair his father had had

. I didn't really understand why some of these random plot developments were even included - they didn't advance anything any further.

Overall, the book just felt vaguely distasteful to me, and the characters unlikable. Not one I'll be picking up again.

evieomills's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

2.0

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