kiercarnahan 's review for:

My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective fast-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: Complicated

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I listened to My Oxford Year and then watched the new Netflix movie and I was SO upset by the movie doing Jamie dirty until I found out that the book is actually based on the screenplay not the other way around so while the movie does do Jamie dirty, Whelan, fixed it. So of course, overall, the book is so much better than the movie. The book has more time to build up and explain everything and I like the situations/circumstances better. I loved the book and now that I can separate the book and movie the movie wasn’t bad but it is NOT a romantic comedy. This book/movie gave me major You Before Me vibes so you have been warned!! The book is about Ella (from Ohio) who wins a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford for a year and meets and falls for her professor Jamie. I actually visited Oxford back in 2012 so it was fun to read and watch about it!