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The Love Test – Versuch's noch mal mit Liebe: Roman by Jenny L. Howe
11 reviews
hcgambrell's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
Graphic: Fatphobia and Death of parent
Moderate: Cancer and Dementia
Minor: Vomit
garbage_mcsmutly's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Dementia, and Death of parent
Minor: Cancer, Child abuse, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Grief, and Dysphoria
dianaschmidty's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Abandonment
Moderate: Child abuse and Dementia
Minor: Cancer
kaydeedickins's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Sexual content and Alcohol
Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Medical content, Death of parent, and Gaslighting
jenn_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Fatphobia and Death of parent
Moderate: Body shaming and Emotional abuse
Minor: Cancer, Medical content, and Dementia
arthur_ant18's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Cancer, Sexism, Sexual content, and Death of parent
michcocoop's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
The Make-Up Test is an academic rivals, second chance romance featuring a plus sized heroine and her, I guess, nerdy-hot ex. These two are quite possibly the most competitive people on the planet. This, unsurprisingly causes problems, when they find out they’re both vying for the same spot to study under the foremost expert on medieval literature. They also face further complications when it seems they both still have unresolved feelings floating around.
This book has a lot of great things going for it. The writing is clever and the main characters are well developed. I will admit I was annoyed with our MCs on a few occasions, but since I am not really a competitive person this didn’t surprise me. Overall, I really enjoyed this read. I thought the subplots surrounding the main characters did a good job explaining their motivations. Really my only complaint is that the ending happened very fast. I would have liked an epilogue or even one more short chapter to give the story a more solid resolution. Don’t get me wrong there is an HEA, but I just wanted a bit more.
Pick up if you’re looking for:
- open door but lower heat
- second chance
- academic rivals (PhD candidates)
- slightly sexy scrabble
- pets with cheesy names (please check back after reading to fully appreciate this line item)
- good fat representation
NOTE: I received an eARC of this book through Netgalley, but the thoughts and opinions here are all mine.
Graphic: Fatphobia
Moderate: Death of parent
Minor: Cancer and Dementia
kbairbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I don’t think I’ve read a college academic rivals to lovers before and that paired with the second chance romance concept was fun! I will say one of the events that happened in the book really knocked me off kilter and I was actively rooting against the male love interest for a while before that was cleared up for me. There is fat phobia in this book and a really terrible father figure as well as a very unsupportive mother which is very triggering but the female main character never had those feelings about herself that I can recall so there is that. I felt very satisfied at the end of the book and find it comical how strong my feelings were during the read. Lovely debut from this author and I look forward to more!
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Alcohol
alisonreadsitall's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Allison Avery is living her best life: rooming with her best friend and just started the elite graduate program she's worked so hard to get into. Imagine her surprise when her ex shows up as the other TA competing for a once in a lifetime placement. Being forced to work closely together, will she be able to resist how much he has changed?
Overall, I really liked Allison. She loved herself as a fat woman, and didn't try to make herself smaller (physically or emotionally) to fit in or please others. She was intelligent, confident, and always had a plan for worst case scenarios. However, she suffered from the inability to cope with failure and jumped to false conclusions often driven by her anxiety.
While I didn't love this one, I really did enjoy it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I'm looking forward to more of what Jenny has up her sleeve as an author!
Tropes: second chance romance, rivalry to lovers, forced proximity
The book will be published September 13, 2022!
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Fatphobia
Moderate: Toxic relationship
Minor: Cancer
bookwormbullet'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: Emotional abuse
Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Gaslighting
Minor: Cancer and Medical content