A review by readyforit
A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole

emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

2⭐️2💧
Why is it that in every YA book that gets popular one of the MC
dies?
I expected to be sad. I didn’t expect for these teenagers to be depressed and serious about everything for the ENTIRE BOOK. There is no levity to balance out the morosity anywhere in the entire 13 hours of audiobook. Teenagers still laugh and joke through the pain, in fact I’d argue they mostly use humor to cope! There was no realism in this book whatsoever. Of course poppy would be a good enough cellist to play in Carnegie hall. Of course rune would be a good enough amateur photographer to get into NYU tisch. 

Wtf was with the epilogue?? Rune
lives about another ten years after poppy dies and then dies suddenly and we find out he never moved on or even kissed another girl bc he promised poppy?? He wakes up in their version of heaven and is only thinking of seeing her again, not of the family and friends he left behind. HUH
This book has so much religious imagery in it. Lots of talk about heaven and everything happening for a reason. 

Poppy’s narrator was pretty good, but rune’s narrator mostly yelled at me during his chapters. 

Lastly, why did they choose the
cancer notorious for its very good survival rate? Why not pick a more deadly cancer if she was going to die young anyway?


I had a hunch I should’ve DNFed at 20% and 50% and I was right.
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