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People Person by Candice Carty-Williams

29 reviews

_jchinasa's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, and Death of parent

serendipitysbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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? Yes

3.75

 

People Person centres around Dimple Pennington, a thirty year old aspiring influencer, who reconnects with her four half-siblings after a meeting with her boyfriend goes terribly wrong. I really struggled with the unbelievability of the plot at this point. I understand I’ll never be able to fully understand a Black person’s perspective when it comes to dealing with the police so it’s perhaps not a surprise that I found their choices a little extreme. Still there was plenty I did like about this story, particularly the characters. Three of Dimple’s half-siblings were particularly likeable and I loved the way they all came together unquestioningly when needed. Cyril was a colourful character, equal parts fun and frustrating to read about.
While I was often frustrated by Dimple, who felt a lot younger than her actual age, I think the author did a good job showing why this was, resolving many of the issues, and permitting Dimple some much-needed growth and development. This novel touches on some tough topics like mental health, parental abandonment, domestic abuse, alcoholics and police racism, but it’s also a story of a complicated but warm-hearted family, and the difference belonging to one can make in a person’s life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Racism

kerrygetsliterary's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol

planetsaturns's review against another edition

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

znvisser's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Really mixed feelings about this one… I did mostly love the writing and the sibling dynamics, so those made this read enjoyable. However, I had two bigger problems with it as well: first was the plot, which was really weirdly paced and yet somehow (or actually because of it) quite predictable. Adding the nine night to get the mothers together was not really necessary, it just confused me as to how thirty years later these women still get so emotional over a man who seemed to have not much more going for him than a bit of charm that fizzled out long ago. Second is the perspective: out of the five siblings, the main character was by far the least interesting one and she really got on my nerves after a while. The bad decisions, naïveté and her oversensitivity were so excessive they made me wish I was getting to know this family through ANY other character (it was overdone too, I mean she was already like this as a baby?? Come ON)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Grief

d0505's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

milliemark's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism

agirlnamedellie's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.5

My second read of Candice's and thoroughly enjoyed. Thought the character development and the growth of the relationship between the siblings was so lovely to read about. Loved the humour within this book too and liked that each sibling was very well fleshed out, with their own histories and personalities being very well thought out and individual, which is why I think I enjoyed it so much.  Found the traits of the siblings father difficult to read at times as his behaviour mirrored my own estranged fathers when I was younger, but thats more of a personal feeling to me, but my feeling didn't tarnish how I felt about the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming, Blood, and Death of parent

michaelion's review

emotional funny 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? Yes

3.75

TW // British

Very funny. As an only child who grew up with a somewhat absent father, and knowing the secondhand experience my friends had of being one of many children, this hit home. The book is very real in many ways.

Dimple going off on Lizzie, then the next day everyone continuing on like nothing had happened. I imagine that's what it was like after I'd left my friend's houses.

There's something about it I can't explain that I really connected to. Overall, though, the message about family hit my soft spot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Racism, Torture, Kidnapping, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

laurataylor's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol