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A review by marisamoo
Breakfast Served Anytime by Sarah Combs
5.0
"It's too hard to explain. I can't say why I love the book. I just do. You don't pick the books you fall in love with. It just happens, and when it happens, you know. Who's to say where love comes from?
Oh my gosh. Oh my GOSH. I am c r y I n g
I was not expecting this book to be that beautiful. I thought it'd be so so. Another weird and annoyingly inappropriate contemporary read.
but instead I am in love. I want to read this story over and over. I need to buy it and drown again in it's words.
I mean it's not for everyone but for some reason this book spoke to me and I just related to Gloria and her journey.
Maybe it's just me perhaps everyone else will dislike her and the book but this book hit me hard.
Like I can't even write a review but I will try.
Ok basics. The words. Were beautiful.
GRANTED. Certain bits did seem a tad forced, like the author was trying REALLY hard to be poetic and quotable. She certainly did succeed but some things did not.
The characters. I related to Gloria insanely well. Everything she felt and did was me.
The charactersssss. All of them. I loved every one of them. Some came in seeming like stereotypes and bam. They changed. Every single character was real, and beautiful. A lot of people stopped midway through because they seemed lame and typical but thatttt is one of the problems with stopping a book midway for that reason. This book had a lot of character development that you get to watch, so you really have to stick with it if you don't like the characters at first.
Reading through reviews so many people described Gloria as self absorbed, shallow. And that is opinion of course but to me she isn't. She is actually very relatable. She's anxious, scared to do a lot with her life. She thinks she knows herself, life, she thinks organizing everything will work out and make it all easier. She thinks categorizing people will make it easier. She is caught up with wondering why people like her and that may sound selfish but pls. Who hasn't thought that.
She did not say it outspokenly but really that's why it was pretty. Gloria had anxiety. Self esteem, even. Maybe. But it never really SAID that and that's why I love it because most of the times you don't put titles on problems they just are and you cant explain it.
The story was REALISTIC. So it had swearing but wasn't a gross gritty realistic. It was REAL and beautiful and inspiring.
There was romance but it never really happened which I appreciated. It was far from insta-love, but cute but far from fluffy. It was...real.
I really cant explain it but this book means a lot to me. This book struck me hard and I am in love.
The quote at the top describes it perfectly anddd here's another
"I guess what I'm trying to say is that sometimes you can love a book not so much because of what it's about or what happens in it, but because it belongs to a certain time or person in your life -- like you'll always remember where you were when you read it for the first time, or who gave it to you, or what season it was, or who you were before you read it and how you were different when it was over."
content: Ehhhhh PG13 just because of swearing.
Oh my gosh. Oh my GOSH. I am c r y I n g
I was not expecting this book to be that beautiful. I thought it'd be so so. Another weird and annoyingly inappropriate contemporary read.
but instead I am in love. I want to read this story over and over. I need to buy it and drown again in it's words.
I mean it's not for everyone but for some reason this book spoke to me and I just related to Gloria and her journey.
Maybe it's just me perhaps everyone else will dislike her and the book but this book hit me hard.
Like I can't even write a review but I will try.
Ok basics. The words. Were beautiful.
GRANTED. Certain bits did seem a tad forced, like the author was trying REALLY hard to be poetic and quotable. She certainly did succeed but some things did not.
The characters. I related to Gloria insanely well. Everything she felt and did was me.
The charactersssss. All of them. I loved every one of them. Some came in seeming like stereotypes and bam. They changed. Every single character was real, and beautiful. A lot of people stopped midway through because they seemed lame and typical but thatttt is one of the problems with stopping a book midway for that reason. This book had a lot of character development that you get to watch, so you really have to stick with it if you don't like the characters at first.
Reading through reviews so many people described Gloria as self absorbed, shallow. And that is opinion of course but to me she isn't. She is actually very relatable. She's anxious, scared to do a lot with her life. She thinks she knows herself, life, she thinks organizing everything will work out and make it all easier. She thinks categorizing people will make it easier. She is caught up with wondering why people like her and that may sound selfish but pls. Who hasn't thought that.
She did not say it outspokenly but really that's why it was pretty. Gloria had anxiety. Self esteem, even. Maybe. But it never really SAID that and that's why I love it because most of the times you don't put titles on problems they just are and you cant explain it.
The story was REALISTIC. So it had swearing but wasn't a gross gritty realistic. It was REAL and beautiful and inspiring.
There was romance but it never really happened which I appreciated. It was far from insta-love, but cute but far from fluffy. It was...real.
I really cant explain it but this book means a lot to me. This book struck me hard and I am in love.
The quote at the top describes it perfectly anddd here's another
"I guess what I'm trying to say is that sometimes you can love a book not so much because of what it's about or what happens in it, but because it belongs to a certain time or person in your life -- like you'll always remember where you were when you read it for the first time, or who gave it to you, or what season it was, or who you were before you read it and how you were different when it was over."
content: Ehhhhh PG13 just because of swearing.