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alertnerd 's review for:
Little & Lion
by Brandy Colbert
emotional
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
First off, I loved all of the characters. There was a lot of really good rep in this book. The main character is a Black, Jewish, bisexual girl. Her brother has bipolar disorder, and her love interest has Ménière's disease. From other reviews, I’ve seen that the Jewish rep was well done and Colbert’s depiction of bipolar disorder was accurate.
I also really liked all the relationships, especially Little and Lion’s relationship and Little’s relationship with her step-dad, Saul. Too many people view step siblings and parents as “not real family” and it was nice to see them portrayed as such a loving family.
However, I really felt like the love triangle was unnecessary. I’ve seen a lot of people mention this in their reviews and I agree that it is a little overdone having a bisexual main character in a love triangle with both a male and female character.
On top of that, I could not get myself to like Rafaela. I tried really hard, but I just ended up disliking her more. She seemed inconsiderate of everyone’s feelings, was overly flirty with Suzette when she knew that was inappropriate and didn’t seem to take anything seriously until things got really bad.
I expected this to be a very quick and easy read, but it took me a little while to get into it. I still look forward to reading more of Brandy Colbert’s work.
I also really liked all the relationships, especially Little and Lion’s relationship and Little’s relationship with her step-dad, Saul. Too many people view step siblings and parents as “not real family” and it was nice to see them portrayed as such a loving family.
However, I really felt like the love triangle was unnecessary. I’ve seen a lot of people mention this in their reviews and I agree that it is a little overdone having a bisexual main character in a love triangle with both a male and female character.
On top of that, I could not get myself to like Rafaela. I tried really hard, but I just ended up disliking her more. She seemed inconsiderate of everyone’s feelings, was overly flirty with Suzette when she knew that was inappropriate and didn’t seem to take anything seriously until things got really bad.
I expected this to be a very quick and easy read, but it took me a little while to get into it. I still look forward to reading more of Brandy Colbert’s work.