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Star-Crossed by Minnie Darke

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kenzied's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

birdgey's review against another edition

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5.0

This book was incredibly Australian, incredibly stressful at some points (damnit Justine!) and incredibly wonderful. It had a perfect ending and so many life lessons along the way. Minnie dark spun a magical web of connected people with exquisite precision, and I can’t wait to read more of her work.

leahralph's review against another edition

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5.0

I was hesitant about starting this one as I’m not normally a reader of this genre. What prompted me was that the author is Tasmanian, as am I. It took a couple of chapters to get me hooked but as soon as I was I struggled to put it down. Really enjoyed the characters, the writing and the whimsy of the plot. So glad I gave this one a crack. Looking forward to future novels by this great author.

klb77's review against another edition

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too many characters introduced that I could tell weren’t going to matter- I actually don’t need to know about the fmc and mmc’s parents love stories and neighbors and each coworker and precious job they’ve ever had. Found better books to read and couldn’t focus on these guys or their family tree. I didn’t enjoy the narrator or how several things were phrased. Maybe I’ll revisit but an hour and a half of nothing was way more than I needed.

justinekorson's review against another edition

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3.0

I’ve never read a book with my name in it before (and the fact that Justine is also a Sagittarius like me is wild too) and let me just say reader, it’s as weird as it gets.

The whole story is based on zodiac signs and how people react to their horoscopes printed in a magazine. So other than the main characters, Nick and Justine, there are several other smaller stories in between the chapters that discuss other people and their lives. Toward the end of the novel all these mini stories get tied into Nick and Justine’s story in a sort of Love, Actually or Crazy, Stupid, Love kind of way that was overall very enjoyable.

What I didn’t like much about the story was Justine’s actions but I think that’s mainly because… I might have done the exact same thing as she did. I’m not sure if I would follow through with the final big consequence, rewriting all the zodiac horoscopes to pass off as Leo’s writing, but every other action she took I feel I would’ve reacted the same.

The reason I can’t get behind her though is because the author painted her as this super smart, super honest character and then instead of telling the truth, she lies to Daniel, forges a document (which is way harder in retrospect instead of simply telling the truth) and nearly costs herself her job! The job she worked YEARS to get!!! That in itself was the stupidest thing a character could do and I couldn’t even sympathize with her when everything went to shit on her birthday! (Her birthday is when the consequences of her actions caught up to her and everyone found out the truth).

To top it all off, at the beginning, despite seeing how none of her alterations to the Aquarius horoscope pushed Nick towards her/towards his dream SHE KEPT REWRITING HIS HOROSCOPE. If I was her and I’d seen how Nick had misinterpreted what I wrote (and she did know because he told her) I would’ve tried once more and then stopped completely when I realized my writing was having the complete opposite effect on him.

I guess what I’m really trying to say is… I don’t believe I’d ever risk my dream job for a guy.

littlemisslibrarian's review against another edition

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4.0

As a whole, it was a pretty good story, but there were some sections that went entirely too slow. Also, the book was really wordy in the sense that things were described in way too much detail.