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All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
emotional
medium-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
such a roller coaster!! impressive writing & I really enjoyed listening to it. It does a good job of exploring second chances and learning how to let people in.
Things escalated so much as it got to the end and I think it could've benefited from 100 more pages and some additional time for character growth.
I wanted the friendships to feel more solid than what we actually got. Tig was my favorite character and I felt annoyed by how they were just constantly put in the position of teaching Sneha, while Sneha made little digs made about Tig being Black, fat, and non-binary that just never really got corrected. I know this is a book about messy, imperfect people but there are times in the book when Sneha gives her perspective from the future and admits she was wrong, but never about Tig.
& I wanted to understand Marina's appeal but it never really clicked.
Things escalated so much as it got to the end and I think it could've benefited from 100 more pages and some additional time for character growth.
I wanted the friendships to feel more solid than what we actually got. Tig was my favorite character and I felt annoyed by how they were just constantly put in the position of teaching Sneha, while Sneha made little digs made about Tig being Black, fat, and non-binary that just never really got corrected. I know this is a book about messy, imperfect people but there are times in the book when Sneha gives her perspective from the future and admits she was wrong, but never about Tig.
& I wanted to understand Marina's appeal but it never really clicked.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse
Moderate: Deportation and Racism
Minor: Fatphobia and Transphobia