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A review by bergha1998
Something Spectacular by Alexis Hall
adventurous
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? Yes
3.25
Trying to fall out of love with your best friend is never easy, but it is what Peggy is trying to do when she gets an urgent message from said BFF. Belle wants to fall in love with an opera singer with the help of Peggy. How dramatic and ill advised.
“She’ll never love me the way I love her—I don’t think she’ll ever love anyone the way I want to be loved. But the truth is nobody else makes me feel the way she does.”
“Then again, all her romantic fantasies of Belle had been about Belle—what she needed, what would make her happy—and it had never really occurred to Peggy to wonder about her own needs. Her own happiness. Typical, really. Only she could find a way to write herself out of her own forever.”
“And she wasn’t sure she knew how to explain the parts of herself that didn’t always fit together when she wanted them to. That went unseen even, she feared, by herself.”
“I do not need you—I do not need anyone—to grant me permission to exist in the world.”
“At first she wasn’t sure if she recognised herself. And then she realised it was the opposite: that she was only just beginning to.”
“You couldn’t write your own story in the margins of someone else’s.”
“I’d rather be someone who gets their heart broken than someone who never dares their heart at all.”
“She’ll never love me the way I love her—I don’t think she’ll ever love anyone the way I want to be loved. But the truth is nobody else makes me feel the way she does.”
“Then again, all her romantic fantasies of Belle had been about Belle—what she needed, what would make her happy—and it had never really occurred to Peggy to wonder about her own needs. Her own happiness. Typical, really. Only she could find a way to write herself out of her own forever.”
“And she wasn’t sure she knew how to explain the parts of herself that didn’t always fit together when she wanted them to. That went unseen even, she feared, by herself.”
“I do not need you—I do not need anyone—to grant me permission to exist in the world.”
“At first she wasn’t sure if she recognised herself. And then she realised it was the opposite: that she was only just beginning to.”
“You couldn’t write your own story in the margins of someone else’s.”
“I’d rather be someone who gets their heart broken than someone who never dares their heart at all.”
Content Warnings
Moderate: Homophobia