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A review by kells_
From Twinkle, with Love by Sandhya Menon
2.0
I'm somewhere in between 2-3 stars for my rating. I was gonna give it the benefit of the doubt and set it as 3, but I'm rewriting this beginning of my review after finishing typing this up and I don't feel it's worthy of a 3 anymore. 2 it is!
This book was alright. The story wasn't my favorite, and I'm not 100% sure if I can even say I liked it, but it had its good aspects too. I have mixed feelings about this book, but I still finished it, so that says something I guess.
Let's first cover the good parts of this book. The FMC is an ambitious & hard-working teenager whose determined to pursue and achieve her dream of being a filmmaker. Her drive to make something out of herself is definitely inspiring, and this book had good representation of an Indian-American FMC. This book also does a great job of showing just how complicated the life of a teenager can be, with friendship issues, family complexities, crushes, etc. I will admit that the friendship issues Twinkle went through lowkey touched home. In addition, Sahil Roy is a TOTAL GREEN FLAG of a boy. He's everything a guy should be when it comes to patience, kindness, attentiveness, and understanding. I rlly rlly liked his character :) The romance in the book was nice also, and I liked how raw teenagery everything in the story felt when it came to angsty emotions and conflicting thoughts.
However, despite all these good aspects that I have mentioned above, this story still fell kind of flat to me. Our FMC was often extremely frustrating. I get her emotions, and sure I've acted immature as a teen too, but she icked me a lot. Despite getting where she's coming from, I still felt icked by her actions and some of the stuff she said. She gets really cocky and there's a fine line between confidence and egoism. It's good that she gets character development, but that's another thing- the way the book ended also felt like a rushed HEA. Suddenly everything is good again and everybody lives HEA. It was satisfying to an extent sure, but also felt strange like ...oh now suddenly in just a couple of pages everything's alright? Also, Sahil deserved Twinkle, but Twinkle didn't deserve Sahil as much. She didn't appreciate him as much as she should have. Another thing is that when it came to the friendship issues she was experiencing, she could have communicated more with Maddie about it... now, ik that that's easier to say than done, but communication is key. Do you really think things between you and her will suddenly go back to normal or change back into how you want them to be if you don't talk to her about how you're feeling directly yourself?
I can say more but I'll end my review here. Overall, this book had good aspects and a lot of potential, but it was also somewhat a bit of a dumpster fire. It was ehh. Not my fav.
p.s. also not a fan of the name twinkle...
This book was alright. The story wasn't my favorite, and I'm not 100% sure if I can even say I liked it, but it had its good aspects too. I have mixed feelings about this book, but I still finished it, so that says something I guess.
Let's first cover the good parts of this book. The FMC is an ambitious & hard-working teenager whose determined to pursue and achieve her dream of being a filmmaker. Her drive to make something out of herself is definitely inspiring, and this book had good representation of an Indian-American FMC. This book also does a great job of showing just how complicated the life of a teenager can be, with friendship issues, family complexities, crushes, etc. I will admit that the friendship issues Twinkle went through lowkey touched home. In addition, Sahil Roy is a TOTAL GREEN FLAG of a boy. He's everything a guy should be when it comes to patience, kindness, attentiveness, and understanding. I rlly rlly liked his character :) The romance in the book was nice also, and I liked how raw teenagery everything in the story felt when it came to angsty emotions and conflicting thoughts.
However, despite all these good aspects that I have mentioned above, this story still fell kind of flat to me. Our FMC was often extremely frustrating. I get her emotions, and sure I've acted immature as a teen too, but she icked me a lot. Despite getting where she's coming from, I still felt icked by her actions and some of the stuff she said. She gets really cocky and there's a fine line between confidence and egoism. It's good that she gets character development, but that's another thing- the way the book ended also felt like a rushed HEA. Suddenly everything is good again and everybody lives HEA. It was satisfying to an extent sure, but also felt strange like ...oh now suddenly in just a couple of pages everything's alright? Also, Sahil deserved Twinkle, but Twinkle didn't deserve Sahil as much. She didn't appreciate him as much as she should have. Another thing is that when it came to the friendship issues she was experiencing, she could have communicated more with Maddie about it... now, ik that that's easier to say than done, but communication is key. Do you really think things between you and her will suddenly go back to normal or change back into how you want them to be if you don't talk to her about how you're feeling directly yourself?
I can say more but I'll end my review here. Overall, this book had good aspects and a lot of potential, but it was also somewhat a bit of a dumpster fire. It was ehh. Not my fav.
p.s. also not a fan of the name twinkle...