A review by lizzylakes
Fun Fact: I Love You by Gina Larsen

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I was given an ARC version of this book and wasn’t really sure what to expect. Overall, I think it was a pretty good book—it included a lot more emotions than I thought it would and I was happily surprised by how much I enjoyed it. The main characters seemed like real teens and were super cute together and I feel like their emotions and reactions to things were also realistic.
I do think that the whole thing about Nellie being able to see people’s colors/auras was a bit odd, especially since it only ever came up like, three times. I thought that it was going to be a bigger part of the story, or at least something more prevalent in Nellie’s point of view. I also thought the whole “everyone has read Block Rock and loves it” was a little too much. In my experience, even really famous books—especially those that are new and only available online—aren’t read by the whole community. There were so many people either dying the tips of their hair pink or forever wearing them in braids just because they liked the book and it seemed unrealistic to me that the book had such a cultural impact after only being out for two years.
Other than that, I thought the book was pretty good.
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