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Say You Swear : Edition Française by Meagan Brandy

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bmitch21's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

First off, let me start off by saying this book is a 5 ⭐️ read! and what a journey this book was! This was my first book by Megan Brandy, and it didn’t disappoint not one bit. The book starts off so innocent and fun, a group of friends, more like family really, heading off to college together to start their adult lives. They’re all thick as thieves. The story focuses around Arianna, Ari for short, our FMC, and her journey of love and healing. This is told in such a beautifully tragic way. The author rips our hearts out. I stayed up till 2am silent sobbing next to my husband to finish this. I couldn’t put it down and needed to know how this story ended. I cannot emphasize this enough, it is SO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN.
Also, there is spice and I give this one 3 🌶️
If you’re on the fence abt this one, just read it. It’s amazing. It’ll be one I’m left thinking abt for a long time and telling all my book besties abt.

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culzean's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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bookswithbethx's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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laylareadsthings's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This is the true definition of an emotional roller coaster. I went from almost DNFing (sometimes reading the 18ish age range is tough for me, and you’re introduced to A LOT of characters and places very quickly) to literally finishing in one sitting. Noah Riley officially tops the list of book boyfriends, I don’t see him ever being dethroned. Ari is written so beautifully, I absolutely loved her development and emotions, and how she processed everything. I’m not usually one for contemporary sports romances but I found this to be a truly beautiful book that I think anyone who finds themself in a space needing to heal process will truly love. Some really wonderful side characters that I’d love to revisit in the future if they have their own books. Spoilers ahead, but if you want to know why this isn’t a perfect five stars:

I think Chase might just be the most awful character I’ve read in recent memory, and for some reason I could NOT get over his friends not calling him on his absolute disgusting behavior. He was predatory and disturbing throughout, but especially towards the end of the book. And I felt it was disguised with the frequent “but he really is a good guy I swear!” excuse, even though he has not a single redeeming moment or quality. This took me out of the plot flow at times but was resolved in a way that made sense and was true to the story.

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jofaye's review against another edition

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emotional funny sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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sammyssullivan18's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

Words cannot explain how good this book is. My emotions were all over the place and heartbreaking as it was in place how heartwarming it was in others that I could just scream into the nothingness. This beautiful story was long but god it just wasn’t long enough and I just wanted more and more. Noah is not just a book boyfriend but a bloody husband. I wanna find a love like his and Arianna’s. Honestly I believe with all my heart that this book is going to stay with me for the rest of my life, that is how powerful it was.

While I hated the tragedy that happen within the story my heart was broken and put back together in the moments after. I will forever refer this book to whoever wants to hear it. I wish I read this book sooner. Also to any guys in the universe, yeah my standards have again been increased so I have a feeling I might be single longer now. THANKS!

If I could rate it with more stars I absolutely would!

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margeemay's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

2.5

This book at several points had me literally saying “what in the Wattpad?”
At one point she gets nervous and mentions that it’s just like the time she got pulled on stage at a one direction concert and puked on zayns shoes. Literally. That’s almost a direct quote
At another point

after a huge blow out fight she goes to tell her love that she loves him and literally gets hit by a car only to wake up with no memory.

This book was good, I liked the characters mostly. I loved Noah, I loved her brother and I loved Brady.
The writing had its moments of cringe dialogue, the twins call each other brother and sister constantly which felt weird. I’ve called my sister versions of sister but never just fully “sister”
I would have given this a higher rating but the the last third of the book is a hot mess express. The writing is fine and the story would have been fine if it was almost the whole plot, but being this final third, i just wanted it to be over.

after finally choosing which boy she wanted (which should not have even been a conversation bc Chase was a walking red flag.) there is a huge fight between Ari (main girl) chase (childhood crush) and her twin brother. All screaming and yelling, the boys get in a physical fight. WHICH WAS FINE I LOVED. but then Noah shows up and just as she’s about to tell him she loves him she gets hit by a car.
She’s put in a medically induced coma and wakes up like 5 days later
WITH NO MEMORY OF THE LAST THREE MONTHS.
On top of that the dr is like “we couldn’t save the baby”
So chase swoops in and is like trying to get her to fall in love with him Noah is taking a step back so she can figure things for herself
AND THIS HIS MOM DIES
Like 4 major traumas happen in less than a hundred pages, and like three weeks book time.
It was too much.
It was way too much.

Also on record. Chase was a creep. He couldn’t take no for an answer and got physically aggressive towards her.

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sienasummerrreads's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

We spent the summer at a family friend's beach house before heading off to college. Everything was great until my brother's best friend shattered my heart and his new teammate at college is there to pick up the pieces.

Everything was going great until it wasn’t and nothing is clear anymore.

This book was a rollercoaster. I enjoyed the book but found it quite long for my liking but it is understandable due to what happens. I also found it a little immature at times with most of the characters. Noah and his mum really pulled this book through for me. I just fell in love with this selfless man who would do anything for his girl. Every page I turned I just wanted Noah. The only thing I struggled with Noah about was the motel drinking his sorrows away. I felt that was out of character. Ariana was good but her indecisiveness and when she was around her best friend Cam frustrated me.

Overall a great read and understand now why everyone is in love with Noah.

If you love:

🔹Summer Heartbreak

🔹Love Triangle

🔹Firsts & Lasts

🔹College Life

🔹Emotional Rollercoaster

🔹Great Spice

Genre/Type: Emotional Romance 18+

APK: Physical / Audiobook

Pages: 550

Audio Length: 17hrs 4mins

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Spice: 🌶️.5

Series or Stand Alone: Stand Alone

Tropes or Themes: Brothers Best Friend, Love Triangle, Friends To Lovers, Found Family, Sports, Football, Team Captain, College, Cursing, Virgin, Letters, Pregnancy Loss, Memory Loss, Loss Of Parent & Medical Content

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hq_reads's review against another edition

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emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

I really enjoyed this book. It was an angst, coming of age romance and it certainly delivered the angst! I found the book hard to put down because of this and it takes an emotional turn that I was not expecting.

I really love Noah, he is a great book boyfriend and was the reason I kept reading this book. Arianna was also a good character, I thought her character development was written really well. Mason I found unnecessarily toxic with no real explanation as to why he is so controlling over Ari and Cam. Cameron and Brady were also a bit surface level with Cameron being the token best friend who doesn't really affect the story/character in any way and Brady was the flirty/banterful one. Chase while frustrating as a character, was written really well and the affect he had on Ari/Noah brought the angst that made this book so great.

I felt the author wasn't good at describing the characters or setting the scene in certain moments with the characters. It was too dialogue heavy at times, especially the beginning where I would expect it to be more scene setting/character building. I felt this improved as the book went on, but I found it really hard to follow the first 25% or so. I realised once I finished the book that there is another book about Nate/Lolli etc but while I was reading this I didn't know, so the complex backstory of these random 3-4 characters was confusing for me. This should have been explained better if this was meant to be read as a standalone. But overall, I did like it and from about 35% the book was a lot better.

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ecravens's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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