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A review by ourmagicclem
Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee
3.0
So… I really wanted to like this one. The premise sounded really cute, there was going to be fake dating (which i love) and also, trans rep! But when i closed the book, I was just disappointed.
First of all, I feel like I was lied to, that the story I was sold and the story I got are 2 different stories. And there is nothing wrong with the second story but that’s not what I was sold. I was sold on a cute fake dating romance with a trans man as the main character. What I got is a story that subverts the fake dating trope and talks about toxic relationship and it really isn’t a cute romcom. And that second story is fine in itself, it’s more about Noah figuring out romance outside of the fantasy he has in his head but again, that wasn’t the book I was told I was going to read.
Second, Noah was kinda annoying. He was very entitled which was the worst thing about him. Like he spend 400$ in a week and then was upset when his parents cut his money? Dude! I grew up relatively well off and my mom would never have let me spend that much money in a week without a VERY GOOD reason. And then he acts so exasperated by the fact that he needs to get a job, which is only a result of his own actions. He is also very self centered which would not have bothered me if he kinda grew out of it but he never really did.
The romance was alright I supposed. Obviously Drew and Noah weren’t good for each other so this relationship wasn’t cute and I enjoyed that aspect of the book (even if I was expecting a more traditional fake dating romance). I like to see how Drew and Noah’s relationship got toxic. I thought this part was well done. And Devin and Noah were cute but I feel their relationship wasn’t given enough space to grow. But it was cute and Devin was a good character. And the fact that e uses neopronoun was pretty cool, that’s the first time i see that in a book and that was very neat.
And finally, the whole meet cute diary blog drama made 0 sense to me. First, I am a tumblr users and "comments" aren’t really a thing there, you either like post or reblog them and you can add something to the post but it’s not "comment" the way people means it online, which is pretty nitpicky but that bothered me a lot. But even without that, the whole drama made no sense: so Noah has this blog for trans meet cute but he makes everything up. But every story are mlm teens with a trans boy and he writes everything in Miami, how did anyone never figured out it was fake? And why didn’t he just open submissions in the first place, it’s very easy on tumblr! I don’t get it
So yeah, that was disappointing. It wasn’t horrible though like I know the review is pretty negative so far but there was good things. Most of the characters were good and even if Noah annoyed me, I didn’t hate him either. The whole summer camp thing was cute and I kinda wish we had dropped the whole fake dating thing to focus on that instead. But yeah, overall it was disappointing.
First of all, I feel like I was lied to, that the story I was sold and the story I got are 2 different stories. And there is nothing wrong with the second story but that’s not what I was sold. I was sold on a cute fake dating romance with a trans man as the main character. What I got is a story that subverts the fake dating trope and talks about toxic relationship and it really isn’t a cute romcom. And that second story is fine in itself, it’s more about Noah figuring out romance outside of the fantasy he has in his head but again, that wasn’t the book I was told I was going to read.
Second, Noah was kinda annoying. He was very entitled which was the worst thing about him. Like he spend 400$ in a week and then was upset when his parents cut his money? Dude! I grew up relatively well off and my mom would never have let me spend that much money in a week without a VERY GOOD reason. And then he acts so exasperated by the fact that he needs to get a job, which is only a result of his own actions. He is also very self centered which would not have bothered me if he kinda grew out of it but he never really did.
The romance was alright I supposed. Obviously Drew and Noah weren’t good for each other so this relationship wasn’t cute and I enjoyed that aspect of the book (even if I was expecting a more traditional fake dating romance). I like to see how Drew and Noah’s relationship got toxic. I thought this part was well done. And Devin and Noah were cute but I feel their relationship wasn’t given enough space to grow. But it was cute and Devin was a good character. And the fact that e uses neopronoun was pretty cool, that’s the first time i see that in a book and that was very neat.
And finally, the whole meet cute diary blog drama made 0 sense to me. First, I am a tumblr users and "comments" aren’t really a thing there, you either like post or reblog them and you can add something to the post but it’s not "comment" the way people means it online, which is pretty nitpicky but that bothered me a lot. But even without that, the whole drama made no sense: so Noah has this blog for trans meet cute but he makes everything up. But every story are mlm teens with a trans boy and he writes everything in Miami, how did anyone never figured out it was fake? And why didn’t he just open submissions in the first place, it’s very easy on tumblr! I don’t get it
So yeah, that was disappointing. It wasn’t horrible though like I know the review is pretty negative so far but there was good things. Most of the characters were good and even if Noah annoyed me, I didn’t hate him either. The whole summer camp thing was cute and I kinda wish we had dropped the whole fake dating thing to focus on that instead. But yeah, overall it was disappointing.