buttonsandbooks 's review for:

A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole

3.0

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I grabbed this blindly from Audible. I don't know if that was a mistake or not. Hear me out - yes, I finally got the answer to the question that was this book. But OMG how many tissues did I have to go through to complete this?! How many times did I think about stopping because of said tissues?!

I will summarize as briefly as I can so as not to spoil this. Poppy is thrilled when she gets a new neighborhood boy her age to play with. At 5, Norwegian Rune doesn't know anything about Georgia. But he knows Poppy is his best friend. Together, the two fall in love and are always together, always a pair. When something happens that separates them, Rune loses his Poppymin and who he is. When they reunite, will he find himself again or will he lose everything?

I have such mixed feelings about this. Was it cheesy? Yep. But it's kids falling in love, so I get it. Was the Norwegian accent and Southern accent together really strange to hear? Yep, super bizarre. At times, I couldn't take any of it seriously. But then the subject matter got heavy AF and just straight 😭😭😭😭. If you want to sob your eyes out to a YA book (with YA language), this might be for you. I don't know how to rate this because yes it got me emotionally, but it also felt sort of corny. I'm going with 3.5 - rounding down. 

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