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olivialandryxo 's review for:
The Way You Make Me Feel
by Maurene Goo
lighthearted
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Things present in both of the books I’ve read by Maurene Goo:
- Great single dads trying their best raising a teen girl
- A dramatic fight between the protagonist and her boyfriend that gets resolved way too easily in the end
Good things about this book:
- Clara and Rose’s friendship, after they stopped acting like petty eight-year-olds and actually communicated
- Hamlet, the (ridiculously named) love interest who grew on me after a while, even though I doubted him at first
Bad things about this book:
- The moment when Clara decides to send her trypophobic dad pictures of barnacles, knowing it will bother him, just because he did something she didn’t like (trypophobia = aversion to the sight of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes/bumps)
- The moment when they’re in the food truck and Rose tells Clara not to cook vegetables in the same pan she used to cook pork, because Muslims could eat the food, and Clara doesn’t care, claiming “what they don’t know won’t hurt them”
- Honestly, Clara just wasn’t great, and most of my problems with the story stemmed from her
What I’ve learned:
- Maurene Goo’s books are not for me
Representation:
• Korean-Brazilian protagonist
• Chinese love interest
• Black side character with anxiety
• Mexican-American side character
• gay side character