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Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid

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kcarney86's review against another edition

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reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

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miap09's review

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adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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saara_ilona_muu's review against another edition

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challenging funny informative fast-paced

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

5.0

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mpswans1's review

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funny lighthearted reflective tense fast-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

4.5

Would have been a 5 if the characters grew more! Towards the end

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I would have loved to see both the girls grow- emira to challenge herself and for alix to not be such a crazy white woman. I can’t get over how she found out about the letter actually being lost in high school but still went along with demonizing Kelley.

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aside from that the writing was great, I hated the characters when they were written to be hated (mark of a good writer ha) and the book was fast paced to keep me through! Also the kids were so cute!

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too bad the mom still treats the curious child like a nuisance at the end. I would love a kid like that

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samanfa's review

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emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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mld8's review against another edition

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funny reflective tense 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

3.75

Emira embodies all I want to be in life and is completely relatable in trying to figure out life in your mid to late 20s. Alix, on the other hand, is an annoyance I cannot stand and my life would be better off without her.

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1yn23's review against another edition

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challenging emotional 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

5.0

very honest portrayal of whiteness, very interesting interweaving story, powerful & complex characters, loveable child

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antimony's review against another edition

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reflective

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

4.0

<i> emira makes most of her living babysitting for alix chamberlain, a rich white woman who teaches other women how to get what they want. sure, it is completely under the table, and there's no benefits (like health insurance .... and emira is rapidly nearing the date when she'll be taken off her parents'), but briar is such a sweet kid. one night, alix calls emira in a panic, needing her to get briar out of the house during an emergency, and while biding their time at a fancy grocery store, someone accuses emira of kidnapping briar. a bystander films it, trying to convince emira to confront the store, but she is humiliated and just wants to pretend it never happened. alix just wants to try and make everything right. but neither of them know that someone from alix's past is about to come back into her life, upending everything </i>

agh that was a bad summary and i lifted a lot from the jacket but whatever. im trying to put summaries in as many reviews as possible to make myself better at describing what im reading when people ask.

anyway this is not my typical genre, but i found it in a little free library and picked it up bc id considered reading it a couple years ago. i didn't go in with the highest of expectations — not to say i thought it would be a bad book, just that i thought i might not like it because genre — but i actually enjoyed it a lot! the writing was really good, and i flew through the whole book in just a couple hours this afternoon. the characters don't feel flat in any way — even when alix or kelley are being horrendously unlikeable, you sympathize a bit just by virtue of being in their head (alix) or on their side (kelley) (well actually that is not true. i did not like kelley. but he felt real!) i liked the last couple chapters a lot (

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i was really worried that alix wouldn't face any consequences and i was ready to be mad about it

) and though I'm glad that

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things worked out for emira

i feel really bad for briar and i wish

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emira had been able to give her a better goodbye or like say hi when she saw her trick or treating or something

definitely recommend!

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