Reviews with content warning for Violence - If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

this book is a beautiful representation of how you can go from rock bottom to the top of the world. how even in the worse situations there's still hope.

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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

4.0

it was fine I guess. I didn't really connect with avery and there were moments after she reconnected with Cass that it felt like she was like "ok im in love now depression cured" and that bugged me bc obvs that's not how it works. but the writing was beautiful and the themes were beautiful and the church camp trauma hit a little too close to home ngl. so like it was good but im not going to be losing sleep thinking about it.

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emotional reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

2.0

pretty sure that's not how asteroids work but I don't know enough to say for sure

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

At first, I didn’t like this book. It took me about 43% for it to start getting into the nitty gritty. I thought the book was going to be about getting to Cass in Brooklyn. BUT it wasn’t and that made it so much better. It wasn’t a story about a girl running to the love of her life. It was a story about a girl finding the want to live, the desire to make a future for herself, and to choose what she wanted her life to be not what she thought others wanted from her. I deeply connected to Avery. I wasn’t sure if I was queer until college. Even then, I questioned the validity of it. Thankfully I did not have all of the religious guilt that Avery does. I also went through a major depressive episode in college. I didn’t go to classes. I didn’t know I should even tell my profs what I was going through. I didn’t want to tell my parents. I didn’t know who or how to reach out. My only big qualm was the ending.

I was sad that we didn’t get to know Theo it one of the meteor. Maybe that meant they all died. Maybe the happy ever after was her being with Cass in the end ready to live out the future. I wanted a happy happy ending though. I wanted to hear (because I was audiobook) “epilogue three months later. Teddy was running around blah blah blah”. But no. We didn’t get that. And that is gonna be on my mind for so so long

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