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- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
2.75
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Sexual harassment
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.0
🎧 Duet style narration, plus the male narrator is British, so this was a fun listen.
🌶️ 3.5/5 it gets spicy but only a couple times (again, it's a short book)
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Cursing, Grief, and Abandonment
Minor: Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
4.5
🎧 Dual POV, two narrators. The female voice was particularly good at emoting in her words.
🌶️ 3.5/5 a couple scenes of teenaged hooking up, a sex scene or two as well
Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Abandonment
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Minor: Violence, Vomit, and Car accident
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
🏳️🌈✊ This is, of course, a Jewish book. The FMC has been separated from her Jewish community, and has a journey of rediscovering and reintegrating into the larger Jewish community through the MMC's family/events. MMC is pretty thoroughly entrenched in the community, even though he's been absent for a few years. It was interesting to see FMC's journey and how her opinion of the community changes over the course of the book, mirrored in how she reacts to/plans for the Hanukkah festival. I'm not Jewish myself but to my eyes this was a good representation of a few different outlooks within the American (specifically NYC and VT) Jewish experience.
There was also representation with FMC having come from emotionally abusive parents. We hardly see any of that abuse on page but it's alluded to several times and the effect it has had on her is clear in how wary and closed off she is.
🌶️ 0/5 There are two very tame kisses, that's it.
Moderate: Antisemitism, Gaslighting, and Alcohol
Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, and Cultural appropriation
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
🎧👍 Duet narration, dual pov. He has a British (London) accent.
🌶️ 3/5 Only two scenes but it's a short book.
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Cursing, Abandonment, and Alcohol
Minor: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
🌶️ 2.5/5 one scene
Moderate: Sexual content, Grief, and Alcohol
Minor: Cancer, Excrement, Vomit, and Death of parent