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indiekay 's review for:
Love & Other Disasters
by Anita Kelly
I love me a good reality TV romance book.
I really liked both characters, I like the concept... I kind of just wish there was more... Something? More about the other contestants. More of the characters being together before they say I love you. I understood why London liked Dahlia, but I struggled a bit with when and how exactly Dahlia started liking London as more of a friend.
Things I did like: at the beginning of the book Dahlia talks a lot about the colours and the textures and the vibrancy in the food she makes, and has a good metaphor for onions that is brought up again at the end of the book. Loved that, kind of wish there was more of that.
Both characters have a problem with one of their parents (Dahlia that she feels her mother is disappointed in them, and London that their father keeps misgendering them), and I'm happy that before the book ends both characters confront their parents about these problems. I think more adult books should talk about parental conflicts like this, because you see it a lot in YA but not really in these sort of settings.
But yeah! Good book, will probably read it again one day.
I really liked both characters, I like the concept... I kind of just wish there was more... Something? More about the other contestants. More of the characters being together before they say I love you. I understood why London liked Dahlia, but I struggled a bit with when and how exactly Dahlia started liking London as more of a friend.
Things I did like: at the beginning of the book Dahlia talks a lot about the colours and the textures and the vibrancy in the food she makes, and has a good metaphor for onions that is brought up again at the end of the book. Loved that, kind of wish there was more of that.
Both characters have a problem with one of their parents (Dahlia that she feels her mother is disappointed in them, and London that their father keeps misgendering them), and I'm happy that before the book ends both characters confront their parents about these problems. I think more adult books should talk about parental conflicts like this, because you see it a lot in YA but not really in these sort of settings.
But yeah! Good book, will probably read it again one day.