lynxpardinus's review
4.25
Graphic: Mental illness, Blood, Car accident, Death, Grief, and Sexual content
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Child death, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Violence, Death of parent, Gore, Homophobia, and Infidelity
Minor: Drug use, Self harm, Domestic abuse, and Cancer
sundayfever'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: Death, Grief, Car accident, and Sexual content
Moderate: Homophobia and Blood
caitlinemccann'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
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Sexual content, and Car accident
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Sexism
Minor: Biphobia
queenkath32's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Alcohol, Blood, and Death
julesfrigault's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Car accident and Blood
Moderate: Child death and Death
aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, and Grief
meeklovestoread's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I went not knowing the tropes of this book and I think this proved to be beneficial for me because if you were to tell me the tropes that were in this book initially I probably wouldn't have picked it up. As the book goes along you'll see that it turns into a forbidden romance with a significant age gap. I don't really care for tropes in books, however, these are usually things I don't gravitate toward which is why it came as a surprise how much I enjoyed reading the romance for this book. The characters seem very sweet, mature, and considerate of one another. I love how consent is an ongoing motif in this book considering we don't really see that much in romance books. And I did enjoy the friendship between Feyi and Joy (although I do wish they wouldn't encourage each other's bad decisions).
Now although I did enjoy the romance between the two characters, I feel like Nasir's feelings were completely justified.
Spoiler
Don't think just because I said his feelings were justified means that I encouraged his destructive behavior. Although the author lowkey tried to justify it, Feyi did take (maybe not deliberately) advantage of Nasir. Even though they weren't technically dating, Feyi obviously knew how much Nasir cared for her. Like what type of dude would fly out his situationship across the country for a week and offer her a chance to jumpstart her career? He had every right to be upset that she was fooling around with his dad of all people. While I do like her and Alim together Nasir and Lorraine are completely justified with their anger.Graphic: Cursing and Grief
Moderate: Car accident, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Death
Minor: Blood
zombiezami's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Sexual content, Blood, Violence, Death, Car accident, and Grief
Moderate: Toxic relationship and Outing
Minor: Child death, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Cancer, and Biphobia
kharcourt'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? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Grief, Death, and Sexual content
Moderate: Blood
pia_h's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Racial slurs, Grief, Death of parent, Death, and Car accident
Minor: Alcohol, Violence, and Panic attacks/disorders