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Corinne by Rebecca Morrow

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amirez1043's review

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challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • 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

4.0

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skudiklier's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful reflective tense 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

5.0

I love this book so much. Something about the way it was written is perfect to me--it's one of those books that spoils you for other books because you wish it could always be like this. I love everything about how the relationship unfolds, how things are revealed, the small moments and little unspoken things that become so big when you're in Corinne's head with her. I love the way Morrow doesn't just barrel past the awkward words writing sex scenes requires, and addresses the lack of good words for everything, how it's hard to talk about in real life and in writing. I didn't really know the genre or premise going in so I was a little stressed the whole book that there wouldn't be a HEA, because once I got about halfway through I didn't even want to check the StoryGraph to see if it's really a romance or not. I stayed up way too late reading this book and was just so invested in it. I definitely want to read more by Rebecca Morrow.

Edit: I read this book because John Green recommended it as a "super steamy evangelical romance," but I forgot about that when I finally got around to reading it (I just marked it as "John Green rec"). Anyway I just wanted to say....he's right lmao that's a good description.
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dalek_caan's review

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

0.25

I found the book to be a let down. As someone who has experienced religious trauma, I was expecting to relate to and feel for the characters in this novel. Instead I was met with blank protagonists, and an extremely confusing writing style. Most of the time, I couldn't tell if this piece was written in first person limited or omniscient because it kept flipping between the two without any warning. Additionally, there were a number of asides in parentheses that were entirely out of place. Not to mention that the writing style overall was dry and repetitive. The author kept using the same descriptors for the characters as well as repeatedly body shaming them even though their physical appearance had no significant relevance to the overall point of the story. I feel that some of the issues in the writing in regards to dryness and repetition may have been worth looking past for an interesting story, but not even that was present. If a more interesting romance had been the focus, that may have been better, but there were too many elements of forgiveness and reunification with the church. It always bothers me when the expectation is for people to forgive the people who hurt them, which I strongly feel this book was encouraging. The main character kept saying "I don't owe him anything" and yet would break her own boundaries just to fall back into her trauma, not just for the love interest but for her family. In conclusion I stopped reading and definitely would not recommend this book. 

Update: in an effort to finish reading unfinished books on my shelf, I finished reading this book. Wasn't worth it, I stand by my previous review.
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