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monicaannlew22'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
4.0
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent
Minor: Stalking, Abortion, Gaslighting, and Abandonment
lilly_springer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship
katk1ndl3'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
4.75
Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting
blackbirdbibliophile'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
4.5
Graphic: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, and Death of parent
juanat77'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
4.0
Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
elvenpanther's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Minor: Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Grief
taracoleman'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
4.75
Graphic: Emotional abuse
Moderate: Cancer, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, and Pregnancy
pocketfullofjosie'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
The beginning was a bit slow and took me a while to get into since it was a lot of character writing but I came to appreciate it more and finished the last 200 pages much more quickly.
I also loved that this was set during the holidays but it wasn’t too hallmark-y and in your face about it.
Very cozy romance book to break up some of my fantasy reads ❄️🫶🏼
Moderate: Toxic relationship
macaronsandmermaids's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent
amelianotthepilot's review against another edition
3.0
our main character Iris, is a chef from London, her mother has recently passed away and she’s escaped a manipulative ex boyfriend and now is living in NYC trying to live the dream. She’s found work at a noodle restaurant who’s owner is her gay male best friend 🙄 (what a tired trope) and she also lives in the building. After a series of events she ends up helping our leading man, Gio, an italian american restaurant owner, figure out his family’s lost gelato recipe which Iris happens to know.
first off it starts with a random chapter set on valentine’s day of Iris being rude to a random man (guess who this turns out to be) cause he took the last book at a bookstore.
The book then jump cuts to September’s San Genarro festival in Little Italy and doesn’t bring up this bookshop moment until wayyyy later at which point I literally thought it wasn’t coming back.
I also feel like there was a weird confusion around her parents and the love interest’s parents that left me thinking half of the book that this might turn out to be an incest plot 🙅🏼♀️🙅🏼♀️🙅🏼♀️ maybe i just wasn’t paying attention enough but Iris’s mother was in a band together with two men who were a guitarist and a drummer. Her mother also dated one of the guitarist’s brother, who is the restaurant owner and Gio’s uncle that he calls papa. For me it was unclear that Iris’s mother had the baby with the drummer not the guitarist, and that the guitarist is Gio’s dad. Very confusing tbh and I spent have the book in fear it was incest
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Alcohol