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A review by hardcover_hazel
A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
A sapphic love story? A heist with skilled women? The TITANIC?
I have some really weird obsession with the titanic 😂 I was drawn to it as a 6 year old and would watch the movie on repeat. My mom thinks that in a previous life, I was a passenger on board.
So having a sapphic love story on the titanic was something I didn't know I needed 😂 this book GAVE. It gave strong, confident women in an era that didn't believe in it. It has POC main characters. It has found family. It has heisting. It has a sinking ship!! It made me SOB (always a good thing in a book imo).
It was a bit of a slow build up to the sinking drama, and some of the writing needed intense googling and staring at portholes on the ship to figure out what happened. But it's a book I will treasure close to my heart that I didn't know I needed. Please be aware, if you don't have a strange obsession towards the titanic you may not enjoy it as much as me 😂
Also - the author thanks you for reading it! Extra points will always be given for this.
Now if only I could find the love of my life without the cold embrace of the Atlantic, that would be great.
I have some really weird obsession with the titanic 😂 I was drawn to it as a 6 year old and would watch the movie on repeat. My mom thinks that in a previous life, I was a passenger on board.
So having a sapphic love story on the titanic was something I didn't know I needed 😂 this book GAVE. It gave strong, confident women in an era that didn't believe in it. It has POC main characters. It has found family. It has heisting. It has a sinking ship!! It made me SOB (always a good thing in a book imo).
It was a bit of a slow build up to the sinking drama, and some of the writing needed intense googling and staring at portholes on the ship to figure out what happened. But it's a book I will treasure close to my heart that I didn't know I needed. Please be aware, if you don't have a strange obsession towards the titanic you may not enjoy it as much as me 😂
Also - the author thanks you for reading it! Extra points will always be given for this.
Now if only I could find the love of my life without the cold embrace of the Atlantic, that would be great.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Grief, and Sexism