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A review by lizshayne
Due Diligence by Anna Zabo
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
It's not like this was bad or anything, but let me list my reasons for the rating:
1 - "We were great in high school but then everything felt apart" is such a hit or miss trope for me. This one...glanced, I suppose. Like, they were fine, but the balance between "the screw-ups need to be real" and "the screw-ups need to be survivable" was a bit wobbly.
2 - A certain amount of "the plot needs you to be an ass right now" and I was annoyed.
3 - 99 - I'm lowkey obsessed with Justin and Eli and these two were not them.
Which, fine, that is the way that the genre works. New book, new couple.
But fewer of my buttons were pushed this time around.
1 - "We were great in high school but then everything felt apart" is such a hit or miss trope for me. This one...glanced, I suppose. Like, they were fine, but the balance between "the screw-ups need to be real" and "the screw-ups need to be survivable" was a bit wobbly.
2 - A certain amount of "the plot needs you to be an ass right now" and I was annoyed.
3 - 99 - I'm lowkey obsessed with Justin and Eli and these two were not them.
Which, fine, that is the way that the genre works. New book, new couple.
But fewer of my buttons were pushed this time around.