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A review by bravemaeve
The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich
3.0
GAYYYYYYY (Real review below)
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This book was pretty awful, not gonna lie. I get authors are trying to get out there and incorporate more PoC and LGBTQ+ and various other characters, but this is not the way to do it. There's an interesting set-up with the idea of Love Interests, but we never hear anything about it. There's no history about it, no backstory to Caden, not even a future reference about it. It's like they ignored what should've been the main purpose of the story and just hit the gay button. The Dylan and Caden relationship had no development whatsoever like they're just making out one day. They really needed more character development. And every gay cliche is thrown in as well like the "I need to practice kissing so we should kiss just for practice." I was laughing at how awful this relationship was by the end. The only kudos I give to this is Juliet. I thought she was going to be some petty, annoying girl but she's a cool science nerd and we don't get enough science girls in YA novels. So yeah this book was pretty trash and not even the gay could save it.
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This book was pretty awful, not gonna lie. I get authors are trying to get out there and incorporate more PoC and LGBTQ+ and various other characters, but this is not the way to do it. There's an interesting set-up with the idea of Love Interests, but we never hear anything about it. There's no history about it, no backstory to Caden, not even a future reference about it. It's like they ignored what should've been the main purpose of the story and just hit the gay button. The Dylan and Caden relationship had no development whatsoever like they're just making out one day. They really needed more character development. And every gay cliche is thrown in as well like the "I need to practice kissing so we should kiss just for practice." I was laughing at how awful this relationship was by the end. The only kudos I give to this is Juliet. I thought she was going to be some petty, annoying girl but she's a cool science nerd and we don't get enough science girls in YA novels. So yeah this book was pretty trash and not even the gay could save it.