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Tell Me How You Really Feel
by Aminah Mae Safi
rating: 2.5 stars
format: ebook
Okay. Oooookay. I was really excited for this one. So that's a boomer.
The story follows our two main characters: Rachel and Sana. Kind of the typical popular girl/nerd girl dinamic but with a twist. Sana asks Rachel out first day of freshmen year but Rachel thinks Sana is messing with her bc of the 'omg why would the popular girl want to hang out with someone like me" bullshit and so now she hates Sana forever. But Sana hadn't been kidding and now the girl she has a crush on hates her forever. Yay.
This book wasn't bad. I just didn't like it. I liked Sana. She's a good person and she's nice to people and she has this huge amount of pressure on her shoulders and she's trapped not knowing what she wants, which I can relate to. But Rachel. She was infurating. The main reason why I found myself almost hating this book for the first 30% of it was because of Rachel. She thinks she knows it all and she is so judgmental and generally annoying.
Other thing I didn't like was the narration. Some things that happened along the line were just too oh so convenient for the plot. This book felt so unnecessarily long at times. I get that the writer was trying to build the characters and give them depth and backstories, blah blah blah, but it didn't really work.
One thing the writer really nailed was character development, I give her that. Rachel went through some really deep realizations and ended up being bearable. And Sana, oh cinnamon roll, she found herself and stood up to everyone. Go, Sana.
Also, their relationship. It wasn't an epic love story. I felt the "this sounds like The Cliche Love Story but ACTUALLY it is SO DIFFERENT!!!" vibe which is like, the wrost kind of cliche. BUT. It was cute. It evolved as they did, they slowly started getting to know each other, which made it really natural and not pressured at all . It got to a point where they really made sense together, which is always nice to read.
So, yeah. Basically, it wasn't terrible, but not liking at all one of the two narrators made it really difficult to enjoy it. Also, I've been feeling really apart from YA romance books, so that didn't help. It just wasn't my cup of tea.
format: ebook
Okay. Oooookay. I was really excited for this one. So that's a boomer.
The story follows our two main characters: Rachel and Sana. Kind of the typical popular girl/nerd girl dinamic but with a twist. Sana asks Rachel out first day of freshmen year but Rachel thinks Sana is messing with her bc of the 'omg why would the popular girl want to hang out with someone like me" bullshit and so now she hates Sana forever. But Sana hadn't been kidding and now the girl she has a crush on hates her forever. Yay.
This book wasn't bad. I just didn't like it. I liked Sana. She's a good person and she's nice to people and she has this huge amount of pressure on her shoulders and she's trapped not knowing what she wants, which I can relate to. But Rachel. She was infurating. The main reason why I found myself almost hating this book for the first 30% of it was because of Rachel. She thinks she knows it all and she is so judgmental and generally annoying.
Other thing I didn't like was the narration. Some things that happened along the line were just too oh so convenient for the plot. This book felt so unnecessarily long at times. I get that the writer was trying to build the characters and give them depth and backstories, blah blah blah, but it didn't really work.
One thing the writer really nailed was character development, I give her that. Rachel went through some really deep realizations and ended up being bearable. And Sana, oh cinnamon roll, she found herself and stood up to everyone. Go, Sana.
Also, their relationship. It wasn't an epic love story. I felt the "this sounds like The Cliche Love Story but ACTUALLY it is SO DIFFERENT!!!" vibe which is like, the wrost kind of cliche. BUT. It was cute. It evolved as they did, they slowly started getting to know each other, which made it really natural and not pressured at all . It got to a point where they really made sense together, which is always nice to read.
So, yeah. Basically, it wasn't terrible, but not liking at all one of the two narrators made it really difficult to enjoy it. Also, I've been feeling really apart from YA romance books, so that didn't help. It just wasn't my cup of tea.