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Emergency Contact
by Mary H.K. Choi
I'm calling this as one of those books that just hits you at the right time: it isn't perfect, but I really enjoyed this book and I'm looking forward to more from Choi.
It's primarily a romance between Penny and Sam (and alternates between their viewpoints), but it touches on a lot of serious topics: racism, addiction, rape, being undocumented, broken families on both sides, etc. I thought these were handled generally well, though it started getting more involved towards the end and I wished the book had either been shorter or longer. There was a part where it felt like things could naturally end, but didn't, and I wish what came after that had more time to develop like the main plotline did.
I've been kind of hesitant to embrace current slang in fiction (most notably Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda), but I thought it was integrated well here. There weren't really any points I noticed that were super off-putting and took me out of the narrative.
All of the characters are flawed and (at least in my reading), I thought they were all well-written. I saw myself and my loved ones in the story, even in the hard parts.
I thought this was a really honest story about growing up between being a teenager and an adult and how much you really don't know when so much is going on.
It's primarily a romance between Penny and Sam (and alternates between their viewpoints), but it touches on a lot of serious topics: racism, addiction, rape, being undocumented, broken families on both sides, etc. I thought these were handled generally well, though it started getting more involved towards the end and I wished the book had either been shorter or longer. There was a part where it felt like things could naturally end, but didn't, and I wish what came after that had more time to develop like the main plotline did.
I've been kind of hesitant to embrace current slang in fiction (most notably Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda), but I thought it was integrated well here. There weren't really any points I noticed that were super off-putting and took me out of the narrative.
All of the characters are flawed and (at least in my reading), I thought they were all well-written. I saw myself and my loved ones in the story, even in the hard parts.
I thought this was a really honest story about growing up between being a teenager and an adult and how much you really don't know when so much is going on.