A review by shaun_dh
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.0

I all-caps HATED Sneha until about halfway through. I almost DNFed this in multiple occasions. She’s fatphobic, hates enbies (my spouse is nonbinary so this was particularly painful for me to read), has a weird white girl fetish, and wants to degrade, humiliate, and inflict pain upon sexual partners (not a kink that is palatable for me). So go into this book knowing that’s how she starts, but she ends up less of a shithead with age (don’t we all?)

This is the perfect example of why I don’t read books with characters in their 20s—I have zero interest in revisiting that time in my life

This was just fine for me. The cultural nuances are also not relatable to me (Sneha is Indian, I am not) to me so maybe that would have helped my have more empathy for Sneha in the beginning

Tig, Sneha’s bestie, is the best part of this book. I Stan a fellow biracial Black queen. I want a book all about Tig, please and thank you
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