Review by notbrhymes - Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

notbrhymes 's review for:

Maybe Once, Maybe Twice by Alison Rose Greenberg

just sent my best friend 6 5+ min voice notes about this book and I have no idea how to rate it. I love a book filled with pining and angst and I definitely got that here. But what was that ending? And why did the author feel the need to cram SO many plot points into this book? I also didn’t like reading the lyrics which might be a bit mean but they weren’t for me.

I can’t believe Maggie decided on Asher being the one for her forever without a talk about kids. Like the author really threw that breakup between them at us like nothing when there was 0 lead up. If having a kid is SO important to you why would you never mention it? Especially when it’s how the book starts! And then the way they get back together is NOT gratifying imo. I needed him to acknowledge he went to therapy and does want to be a dad. I didn’t get that AT ALL. And that’s too big of a thing to just leave unaddressed.
We really got love triangle, extreme pining, cheating, heartbreak, sexual assault, death of parent, death of sibling, divorce, fertility issues, etc all in this book just for the author to sprinkle in some more and cause another breakup in the end. That’s crazy to me.
With those complaints though, I did find this to be emotional and heartbreaking. I actually teared up when Maggie was ending things with Garrett and a couple times during portions relating to her sexual assault.

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