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A review by goatsrsexy
The Second You're Single by Cara Tanamachi
Did not finish book. Stopped at 34%.
DNF'd this book at 34% (chapter 10)
Honestly, I found this book offensive and uncomfortable from the beginning, but it was short so I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt and stick it out, see if it got better. It didn't seem to.
Sora and Jack are both very shallow characters. They're extremely negative and judgemental to basically everyone around them. I get that because a lot of the people around them seem like cartoon villains in a very strange way.
Sora especially complains a lot about being judged, yet she's walking around peering into people's grocery carts and deciding what kind of people they are based on what they eat.
Jack complains that all women (except Sora, the woman he's been in love with since kindergarten despite losing contact after fifth grade) are shallow and vapid, while claiming that anyone who makes 'kissy lips' in a photo couldn't possibly hold a conversation.
Both characters have a lot of internalized fatphobia and their opinions about their and other people's bodies are uncomfortable to say the least. When Sora described certain kinds of belly's as 'gross' I was about ready to stop reading, but like I said, I stuck it out.
It's possible this book does get better in the other 2/3 but I honestly did not enjoy the writing style either. If you don't mind judgy characters and you like childhood friends to lovers trope then you may enjoy this book. It wasn't for me.
Thanks to Netgalley and to St Martin's Press for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
Honestly, I found this book offensive and uncomfortable from the beginning, but it was short so I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt and stick it out, see if it got better. It didn't seem to.
Sora and Jack are both very shallow characters. They're extremely negative and judgemental to basically everyone around them. I get that because a lot of the people around them seem like cartoon villains in a very strange way.
Sora especially complains a lot about being judged, yet she's walking around peering into people's grocery carts and deciding what kind of people they are based on what they eat.
Jack complains that all women (except Sora, the woman he's been in love with since kindergarten despite losing contact after fifth grade) are shallow and vapid, while claiming that anyone who makes 'kissy lips' in a photo couldn't possibly hold a conversation.
Both characters have a lot of internalized fatphobia and their opinions about their and other people's bodies are uncomfortable to say the least. When Sora described certain kinds of belly's as 'gross' I was about ready to stop reading, but like I said, I stuck it out.
It's possible this book does get better in the other 2/3 but I honestly did not enjoy the writing style either. If you don't mind judgy characters and you like childhood friends to lovers trope then you may enjoy this book. It wasn't for me.
Thanks to Netgalley and to St Martin's Press for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fatphobia and Misogyny