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chicitytyty 's review for:
Boyfriend Goals
by Riley Hart
hopeful
lighthearted
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
Meh. I had heard of this from
Booktok and enough people recommended it for me to download it on KU.
Milo, a neurodivergent accountant, and Gideon, tattoo parlor owner and out of place with his lawyer family, strike up a friendship after Milo inherits a lost grandmother’s bookstore.
From there we enter FWB and eventually dating with all conflicts being the push and pull of Milo’s autism and peoples’ desires to protect him despite his desire for autonomy and choice.
They are all very good messages and important to see however the whole thing read as too sickly sweet for my tastes. Gideon reconciles (which like his feelings of being different weren’t that stark) with his family in a straight from an after-school special discussion ending in hugs for everyone. Any conflict is the most minor and really is just used for Milo and Gideon to discuss their feelings again with other minor characters before having them AGAIN with each other.
It’s a quick sweet read but a little too sugar coated for me.
Booktok and enough people recommended it for me to download it on KU.
Milo, a neurodivergent accountant, and Gideon, tattoo parlor owner and out of place with his lawyer family, strike up a friendship after Milo inherits a lost grandmother’s bookstore.
From there we enter FWB and eventually dating with all conflicts being the push and pull of Milo’s autism and peoples’ desires to protect him despite his desire for autonomy and choice.
They are all very good messages and important to see however the whole thing read as too sickly sweet for my tastes. Gideon reconciles (which like his feelings of being different weren’t that stark) with his family in a straight from an after-school special discussion ending in hugs for everyone. Any conflict is the most minor and really is just used for Milo and Gideon to discuss their feelings again with other minor characters before having them AGAIN with each other.
It’s a quick sweet read but a little too sugar coated for me.