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A review by nxa
Collided by Lauren Asher
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Liam and sophies situation with the friends to friends with benefits to lovers was so good and their dynamic overall was so funny and nice to see.
But still the story dragging at some points and again like in the first book the pacing was kinda weird. And i really didn’t like the ‘not like other girls’ trope that sophie was falling in quite a bit. It felt like they tried really hard to make her quirky and it was just so irritating. That doesn’t mean i hated sophie, i really liked how her character developed.
Liam was a fun character but sometimes it felt to much like he was sexualizing her and also that he like sophie because she was so ‘different’ and ‘not like other girls’ was something i found really annoying (also very wattpad vibes).
And one really big thing i didn’t like, probably only because i am german, liam wasn’t german enough for me. When he talked about his childhood and stuff he used terms and said things that don’t exist that way in germany (prom, when he said freshman year wtf).
I also wished he would have spoken more german like just using slang and stuff to really show that he is german and grew up in germany (because at least maya and santi spoke some kind of spanish).
And than when he spoke german like i get what he wanted to say but the whole grammar was just so wrong (he said ‘sie nicht sprechen deutsch’ but ist should be ‘sie spricht kein deutsch’).
Also that he didn’t speak german with his family (or at least it didn’t seem that way) and his nieces (a 2 year old and a 3/4/5 year old) speaking english… it is possible but it seemed really weird to me.
So overall the only thing that made liam german was him saying that he is german and his accent that was mentioned like one time at the beginning ( also like the oktoberfest is only in bavaria not everywhere in germany and of course it could be like that liam is from bavaria but like still…).
The whole german thing was just really something that made the whole book so much worst for me because it was no accurate representation and so much was just so wrong and felt really weird (to me a german) which really annoyed me.
But still the story dragging at some points and again like in the first book the pacing was kinda weird. And i really didn’t like the ‘not like other girls’ trope that sophie was falling in quite a bit. It felt like they tried really hard to make her quirky and it was just so irritating. That doesn’t mean i hated sophie, i really liked how her character developed.
Liam was a fun character but sometimes it felt to much like he was sexualizing her and also that he like sophie because she was so ‘different’ and ‘not like other girls’ was something i found really annoying (also very wattpad vibes).
And one really big thing i didn’t like, probably only because i am german, liam wasn’t german enough for me. When he talked about his childhood and stuff he used terms and said things that don’t exist that way in germany (prom, when he said freshman year wtf).
I also wished he would have spoken more german like just using slang and stuff to really show that he is german and grew up in germany (because at least maya and santi spoke some kind of spanish).
And than when he spoke german like i get what he wanted to say but the whole grammar was just so wrong (he said ‘sie nicht sprechen deutsch’ but ist should be ‘sie spricht kein deutsch’).
Also that he didn’t speak german with his family (or at least it didn’t seem that way) and his nieces (a 2 year old and a 3/4/5 year old) speaking english… it is possible but it seemed really weird to me.
So overall the only thing that made liam german was him saying that he is german and his accent that was mentioned like one time at the beginning ( also like the oktoberfest is only in bavaria not everywhere in germany and of course it could be like that liam is from bavaria but like still…).
The whole german thing was just really something that made the whole book so much worst for me because it was no accurate representation and so much was just so wrong and felt really weird (to me a german) which really annoyed me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Pregnancy