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A review by amyikes
Anything But Fine by Tobias Madden
3.0
Apparently having a dance academy phase is something that just becomes a part of you forever, because I saw ballet, and the next thing I knew I was walking home with this book in my bag.
No spoilers, but as I read, I felt like the Luca/Jordan plot was supposed to be the focal point, and for me at least it just wasn't. I would have loved to have spent some more time with Amina's character, especially her story before meeting Luca! I also wish we could have explored a bit more about Luca's move to North - I think I'll ramble more about this on my tumblr later, (I'll link it here once I do), but there were some eerie similarities between Talia and some girls who I myself went to private school with. I would love to see if Tobias Madden in the future writes more about that kind of elitism, the little that we see of how he deals with it in Anything But Fine was extremely accurate.
I would definitely recommend this to anyone who likes netflix romcoms like Never Have I Ever, To All the Boys, or the Kissing Booth. This was a super quick read for me (took me a couple of hours after dinner) and would have been a really fun but not mindless read too if I hadn't had flashbacks to my own experiences in the arts and private schools haha.
No spoilers, but as I read, I felt like the Luca/Jordan plot was supposed to be the focal point, and for me at least it just wasn't. I would have loved to have spent some more time with Amina's character, especially her story before meeting Luca! I also wish we could have explored a bit more about Luca's move to North - I think I'll ramble more about this on my tumblr later, (I'll link it here once I do), but there were some eerie similarities between Talia and some girls who I myself went to private school with. I would love to see if Tobias Madden in the future writes more about that kind of elitism, the little that we see of how he deals with it in Anything But Fine was extremely accurate.
I would definitely recommend this to anyone who likes netflix romcoms like Never Have I Ever, To All the Boys, or the Kissing Booth. This was a super quick read for me (took me a couple of hours after dinner) and would have been a really fun but not mindless read too if I hadn't had flashbacks to my own experiences in the arts and private schools haha.