A review by ebear20
Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler
5.0
Reading this book felt like having a crush for the first time again. I felt all the pain when Rory wouldn't text Adelaide back. I felt all the excitement when he did. What really shocked me was how Wheeler was able to replicate all the emotions I personally have felt in these types of relationships in the past. For the most part, this book IS reality, which is what made me love it so much. It felt very introspective to read about something I've personally experienced. I felt frustrated for Adelaide in the book, and therefore upset that I let myself be played the way Adelaide so obviously was as well.
Throughout the book, the reader discovers that this book is less about a romance, and more about Adelaide finding herself through the mess that this relationship is. At first when the book shifted from being about love, I was thrown. I wasn’t sure I liked that route. But, it ended up working really well, and made me like the book more. At points, all of this did seem a bit cheesy, but I think that’s something I liked about this book. We all are a bit cheesy at times and we don’t always say the most proper, put together things. Wheeler writes this book in the way that someone thinks, which is what I appreciated most.
Throughout the book, the reader discovers that this book is less about a romance, and more about Adelaide finding herself through the mess that this relationship is. At first when the book shifted from being about love, I was thrown. I wasn’t sure I liked that route. But, it ended up working really well, and made me like the book more. At points, all of this did seem a bit cheesy, but I think that’s something I liked about this book. We all are a bit cheesy at times and we don’t always say the most proper, put together things. Wheeler writes this book in the way that someone thinks, which is what I appreciated most.