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People Person by Candice Carty-Williams

25 reviews

jacquinotjackie's review against another edition

funny inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

a sweet, heartwarming story of estranged half siblings coming together in times of tragedy. it’s also laugh out loud funny! this was a fun, quick read, but I wish the characters experienced more growth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism

habibaa20's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

reeseashlee's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcoholism, Sexual content, Blood, and Death of parent

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

I enjoyed Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams and I wanted to read more of her work. My brother kindly gifted me this book for Christmas, and I went into this book blind and was not expecting it at all. 

This book is based on Dimple Pennington, she knew of her half-siblings but she doesn’t really know them. Five people who don’t have anything in common except for the faint memories of being drive around Brixton in their dad’s gold jeep and some complex abandonment issues. Dimple has bigger things to think about. She's thirty, and her life isn’t really going anywhere. An aspiring lifestyle influencer with a terrible and wayward boyfriend, Dimple’s life has shrunk to the size of a phone screen. Despite a small but loyal following, she’s never felt more alone. That all changes when a catastrophic event brings her half siblings Nikisha, Danny, Lizzie and Prynce crashing back into her life. When they’re all forced to reconnect with their absent father, Cyril Pennington, they never knew things get even more complicated. 

This plot had you from the first chapter. I thought it was going to be like a black Brady bunch and then it was domestic abuse and attempted murder. Then it just got worst and worst. These children have got so much unresolved trauma. I wanted to hug every one of those children. Each sibling has their own personality and their own thing going on. It was like being in my household, all the ex-wives hating each other. I was getting deja-vu just from the exes being together and bickering at a funeral.  

I would have loved for this to be multiple POV, just with all the siblings and everyone involved in the story. I felt like this story hooked you from the first chapter but then the middle bit was quite slow going and I had to fight to push through to finish it.  

Overall, this book was gripping and dramatic and I still want to hug each of those kids.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Minor: Racism and Kidnapping

lillypowell's review against another edition

emotional tense fast-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

5.0

A great read;  one of my favourites from 2023.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

eilatan6991's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Alcoholism and Toxic relationship

Minor: Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Torture, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

eve81's review against another edition

funny hopeful sad fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Blood, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

creepycrawlybookworm's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Mental illness, Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Abandonment

Minor: Body shaming

kerrygetsliterary's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol

wordsofclover's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.0

 Nikisha, Danny, Lizzie, Dimple and Prynce all have the same thing in common - their dead-beat dad Cyril who was pretty good at making children but failed in every way imaginable when it came to actually being a dad. Despite hardly knowing each other, when Dimple gets into trouble and calls her big sister, all of her siblings come to her aid and for the first time, they feel like a family.

I really enjoyed this book - both the plot of the story and the twists and turns with Kyron and what he did and did not remember about the night he was rolled in a tarp and almost buried alive but mostly the dynamic and growing relationship between all the siblings. The book covers some more serious topics such as loneliness and the feelings of parental abandonment but also shows the special bond that can exist between family, even when that bond is discovered or nurtured later in life rather than in childhood.

I can't say Dimple was my favourite character to follow for the majority of the book as yes, she was pretty much a crybaby and tended to overdo her victim complex but I guess she was a good character to observe the others through particularly Lizzie and Nikisha whose personalities are so different to hers. I think my favourites were Danny and Prynce (mostly Danny for being a lovable soft boi)

I think I would have liked more chapters in the POV of the other siblings just to understand more what was going on inside their heads than always being in Dimple's which got slightly tedious at times as she repeated the same actions (videos, Roman, crying, poor me act etc).

There are some great scenes in this book and most characters have big personalities in different ways so I do feel like every character stood out but all the best scenes definitely had Cyril in them as he left chaos in his wake. From the way he talks to his baby mamas to how he uses his children for money yet at the same time often visibly struggles to connect with his children and you can tell he does want to but has no idea how and fears that rejection and failure - and not to mention when you find out about some elements of his life, it's hard not to feel a bit sorry for him.

I very much enjoy Candice Carty-Williams, and I think she will probably be an auto-read author for me.

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Domestic abuse and Death of parent