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A review by smilemore
Not Here to Be Liked by Michelle Quach
3.0
Not normally the type of book I gravitate to, but it’s one of my pookie’s favorite books so i really wanted to try it :)
This was really cute! It didn’t really feel like the typical YA romance since a lot of the focus is on strategies of journalism in a high school environment, which I had a blast reading. There were lots of passages about editing tactics for journalism, interview scenes about ongoing stories that had been discussed prior to the scene, and all the relationships between the writing staff made me think a lot of I Hope This Finds You Well which I read earlier this year.
Plus, the motivations and struggles for every character were really well defined, and the conflict moved along pretty quickly so I breezed through this story. Plus, all the characters actually made pretty understandable choices, especially when you take into consideration that these are high schoolers. A lot of the time these YA high school romances become so unbelievably absurd in scale that it becomes ridiculous to think that these are human beings making these choices, but in the case of this book it actually all felt pretty understandable to me, especially with some of the bits that came along in the last quarter of the book.
It does sometimes follow the common YA style of overexplaining how the narrator is feeling / what they’re going through. However, this didn’t really bother me this much, as the way it’s written actually felt like I was just listening to an op-ed article, so it made sense for the narrator’s position in her life.
7.5/10
This was really cute! It didn’t really feel like the typical YA romance since a lot of the focus is on strategies of journalism in a high school environment, which I had a blast reading. There were lots of passages about editing tactics for journalism, interview scenes about ongoing stories that had been discussed prior to the scene, and all the relationships between the writing staff made me think a lot of I Hope This Finds You Well which I read earlier this year.
Plus, the motivations and struggles for every character were really well defined, and the conflict moved along pretty quickly so I breezed through this story. Plus, all the characters actually made pretty understandable choices, especially when you take into consideration that these are high schoolers. A lot of the time these YA high school romances become so unbelievably absurd in scale that it becomes ridiculous to think that these are human beings making these choices, but in the case of this book it actually all felt pretty understandable to me, especially with some of the bits that came along in the last quarter of the book.
It does sometimes follow the common YA style of overexplaining how the narrator is feeling / what they’re going through. However, this didn’t really bother me this much, as the way it’s written actually felt like I was just listening to an op-ed article, so it made sense for the narrator’s position in her life.
7.5/10