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The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle

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jacq_benoit's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-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

4.5

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everybook_123's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious fast-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

4.75

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challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-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

5.0

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4.5

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emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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tinymatriarch's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective medium-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

4.25

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tyler_hmac's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful fast-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

3.75

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rebyreadsandwrites's review against another edition

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challenging emotional sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
The art in this book is beautiful and I liked the characters and their friendships. The author is clearly talented. However, I wasn’t expecting this book to be so depressing. Nothing about the cute cover, title, and description prepared me for how heavy-hearted this book would make me feel. 

It’s character-driven without much character growth, and I’m not sure the author does the difficult topics justice. There is a small content warning which I missed, but it still wouldn’t have prepared me. It’s not the mention of eating disorders or self-harm that were depressing but the self-hatred. 

As someone who dealt with an eating disorder, depression, self harm, and panic attacks as a teenager, I’m trying to think about how this book would have made me feel if I’d read it then and I honestly don’t know. Proceed with caution. It’s not an easy read. 

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notabookseller's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful 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

3.75

Major thanks to NetGalley and First Second Books for this ARC of The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle in exchange for an honest review. The Greatest Thing is currently available for pre-order and will be released on February 8th, 2022. 
 
This story has a full and solid cast of characters who are all read and I’d love to spend more time with them; I think that this universe would make a great cartoon series. I can’t explain why, but as I was reading there were moments where I felt like I was missing something, but I wasn’t. At the end of the book there weren’t any unanswered questions, but it was definitely more open ended than I would’ve liked for something that I know to be a standalone book. 
 
Overall, I did enjoy my time reading this story; I thought the friendships explored were lovely and it was very easy to get attached to these characters. The Greatest Thing touches on a lot of real, sensitive, and important topics and Searle handled them beautifully. April is a tad abrasive at times but it compliments Win’s passivity well, so it works out (Winifred has a tendency to let life happen to her and April does a good job of happening to Win). I truly do hope that we get to see these characters again; I think that they have more stories in them. 
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