For me personally, I find that YA romances can sometimes be quite hit or miss. A lot of the time they can be cliché, borderline sexist (intentionally or not) and quite hard to get into. However, the first four chapters of this book has already got me more hooked than I actually expected to be and I can’t wait to get my hands on my own physical copy. It screams John Green novel done right.
Romantically unsuccessful boy meets a broken girl who he wants to fix but knows that he can’t. There’s a certain mystery built up in the first few chapters that just makes you want to continue reading and see what actually happened to Grace Town.
The characters already have quite a bit of depth to them and it seems like the perfect set up to delve even deeper throughout the rest of the book.
Certain parts feel a little cringe worthy but are easy to look past. Including but not limited to, the whole “hola, broseph” line from Sadie; I have never once met people who address their siblings with any variation of bro or sis that always seems to appear in literature and Lola being the token diversity character in a double whammy of not only race but sexuality. Obviously I’m not saying that someone can’t be mixed race and part of the LGBTQ+ community but it just seems a little too convenient that all the representation comes in the form of one character.
All in all it was an interesting sample and I definitely plan to read the whole thing at some point.
Romantically unsuccessful boy meets a broken girl who he wants to fix but knows that he can’t. There’s a certain mystery built up in the first few chapters that just makes you want to continue reading and see what actually happened to Grace Town.
The characters already have quite a bit of depth to them and it seems like the perfect set up to delve even deeper throughout the rest of the book.
Certain parts feel a little cringe worthy but are easy to look past. Including but not limited to, the whole “hola, broseph” line from Sadie; I have never once met people who address their siblings with any variation of bro or sis that always seems to appear in literature and Lola being the token diversity character in a double whammy of not only race but sexuality. Obviously I’m not saying that someone can’t be mixed race and part of the LGBTQ+ community but it just seems a little too convenient that all the representation comes in the form of one character.
All in all it was an interesting sample and I definitely plan to read the whole thing at some point.