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garbage_mcsmutly's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
🌶️ 3/5 multiple explicit scenes but the spice just wasn't spicing for me
🏳️🌈✊ Both characters are Black/mixed, I think? FMC is biracial (Black and white); I was a little unclear on MMC's parents' races, but he is Black. FMC is fat and she deals with fatphobia, both personally and societally. Props for the mental health & pro-therapy story lines; we love a king who's been in therapy for a decade lol
Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, and Sexual content
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Abandonment
Minor: Animal cruelty, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
bookish_charlotte's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Fatphobia, Sexual content, and Abandonment
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol
Minor: Toxic friendship
booksense's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Vomit, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship
sian_elliott06's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Cursing
Minor: Abandonment
lmayfieldx's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Abandonment and Alcohol
Minor: Animal death
melist6's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Abandonment
Minor: Mental illness
achay91's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content
Moderate: Body shaming, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment
Minor: Toxic friendship and Alcohol
turnthepages_nl's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Abandonment, and Alcohol
Moderate: Toxic relationship and Vomit
lifeofchrstnlvly's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
- This could have been 150 pages shorter.
- Insecurity is different from self-criticism without reason. Stevie is a perfect example of the latter. It took me almost five months to finish this simple romance book due to Stevie's persistent "woe is me" attitude, which I found annoying. Note to Stevie: the world does not revolve around you.
- Bad writing. Liz Tomforde consistently stated the obvious. For example,
when Stevie's dad was explaining that her maternal grandmother was harsh to Stevie's mom, leading to Stevie's mom's similar behavior towards Stevie. He was discussing the difficulties for Stevie's mom and hinting at generational trauma. However, in the next paragraph, Stevie's dad explicitly labels it as generational trauma. Such repetition was not a one-time thing and it became frustrating. It seemed as if Tomforde underestimated the readers' ability to understand the narrative without explicit explanations. An author should trust their eloquence to convey the message to the audience. This led me to speculate that Tomforde lacked confidence in her explanatory skills, hence the need to state the obvious.
Bonus: “Pop/s a shoulder” or “shoulders pop/popping” was mentioned 15 times. Why can't you come up with a more fitting adjective to describe something like that?
Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content
Moderate: Body shaming and Abandonment
Minor: Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
rioreadsbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"You following me?" (IYKYK)
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This was a reread, but this book was just as good the second time around! Liz Tomforde has created one of my all-time favorite romances with Mile High! I doubt this review can do the book justice, but I'm sure gonna give it a go to convince you all to read it if you haven't.
The development and pacing of the plot and of Stevie and Zanders' relationship was chef's kiss. The two of them together will forever be one of my favorite book couples. They compliment each other so well and their growth both separately and together is so well done. The fact that they actually did have to grow personally to make it work together was so realistic and less fairytale-like which I enjoyed. I found Stevie to be so relatable with all the worries and insecurities that many women face. And, Zanders is woah 🥵, a bad boy/playboy type to the public, but ultimately the best guy privately. He's legit GOT IT BAD and would do anything for Stevie. Also, the thoughtful inclusion of both mental health and body image as topics in this novel was superior. Hat's off to Liz Tomforde! I've thought about this novel for over a year since I read it originally and will continue to do so now that I've reread it.
⚠️Warning⚠️
Language, medium spice, adult content
Moderate: Cursing and Sexual content