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eimearz's review against another edition
Moderate: Terminal illness
yvonne_cl'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
4.75
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Abandonment
Moderate: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Alcohol
Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Classism
duchess_fayte'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
4.75
Graphic: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Violence
Moderate: Cursing, Homophobia, and Abandonment
Minor: Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Stalking, and Lesbophobia
kaneli's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Gaslighting, and Abandonment
Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Racism, and Terminal illness
hayleyvem's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Body shaming, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Gaslighting
crystalmethany'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
5.0
Graphic: Cursing
Moderate: Toxic relationship
Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Terminal illness
v171'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
As far as romance goes, this was nothing revolutionary. But it didn't need to be revolutionary to be good. And it was very good!
Graphic: Cursing and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Eating disorder
olivialandryxo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I wasn’t expecting such a focus on Luc’s and Oliver’s complicated family dynamics. The former’s father has been diagnosed with cancer and wants to fix their poor relationship, whereas the latter has emotionally abusive parents. I sympathize with both guys—I wanna give Oliver a hug—and I can especially relate to Luc’s situation, as sans cancer, I have a similar relationship with my own father. However, some of Luc’s comments regarding his father’s diagnosis seemed insensitive, and it rubbed me the wrong way. That is, until
The way Luc and Oliver supported each other warmed my heart. Theirs was a bit of a messy romance, since both of them are the epitome of gay disasters, but I loved it nonetheless. Recently I’ve realized that fake dating is one of my favorite tropes because I love seeing characters’ dynamics shift from an arrangement to real affection, so of course I loved these two, loved their story. And, as an added bonus, they teased each other frequently, which was quite amusing.
This would’ve been a five star read if not for the events of the last hundred pages. Everything seemed to be going well. I was grinning and laughing at almost every page. And then everything went so wildly wrong.
Overall, this wasn’t a bad book. It was mostly enjoyable, and quite entertaining. I’d recommend to those looking for a quick romance read, so long as you don’t go in with extremely high expectations.
Representation
- gay protagonist and love interest
- achillean romance (m/m)
- queer side characters (includes gay, bisexual, and lesbian rep; one achillean couple and one sapphic couple (f/f))
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, and Grief
astarlia's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Terminal illness
The Homophobie is presented as absurd, the emotional abuse is just crappy family and is stood up against, the terminal illness