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A review by gggina13
This Is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi
4.0
Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an early copy!
This was a really fun and sweet story. I love stories with a short setting, and this book was set over the course of one workday. The cast of characters was really fleshed out and diverse.
A boy finds out his beloved workplace, an indie bookstore, is due to close, and in trying to fix it, he makes it worse really fast. So begins a day filled with spilled secrets and frantic plans between the two boys that work there, but especially between the three girls. This book is beautifully girl-centered. Angry girls, hurting girls, perfect-but-not-perfect girls. Each of the three girls go through character development from different starting points so I think there will be many readers who relate to at least one of them.
There were just a time or two where the social awareness felt a little forced, but for the most part this book’s lessons are taught naturally and flowed well with the plot.
This book had that movie-like feel where almost every scene was outlandish and things went way left instead of going right. But it was fun to follow and had lots of humor and heart.
Content warnings for depression and suicidal thoughts and on-page sexual harassment.
This was a really fun and sweet story. I love stories with a short setting, and this book was set over the course of one workday. The cast of characters was really fleshed out and diverse.
A boy finds out his beloved workplace, an indie bookstore, is due to close, and in trying to fix it, he makes it worse really fast. So begins a day filled with spilled secrets and frantic plans between the two boys that work there, but especially between the three girls. This book is beautifully girl-centered. Angry girls, hurting girls, perfect-but-not-perfect girls. Each of the three girls go through character development from different starting points so I think there will be many readers who relate to at least one of them.
There were just a time or two where the social awareness felt a little forced, but for the most part this book’s lessons are taught naturally and flowed well with the plot.
This book had that movie-like feel where almost every scene was outlandish and things went way left instead of going right. But it was fun to follow and had lots of humor and heart.
Content warnings for depression and suicidal thoughts and on-page sexual harassment.