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allonsythornraxx
03/05/2022
3 ⭐
Lowkey so unexpected but these two might be my favourite couple in the entire series. I definitely think that Dean and Allie's book was my favourite but there's just something so adorable and Tucker and Sabrina together, especially with their little kid that I couldn't help but love them.
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3 ⭐
Lowkey so unexpected but these two might be my favourite couple in the entire series. I definitely think that Dean and Allie's book was my favourite but there's just something so adorable and Tucker and Sabrina together, especially with their little kid that I couldn't help but love them.
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01/05/2022
3 ⭐️
This was absolute chaos from start to finish but Allie and Dean are definitely my favourite couple in the series (so far, at least).
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3 ⭐️
This was absolute chaos from start to finish but Allie and Dean are definitely my favourite couple in the series (so far, at least).
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29/04/2022
3.5 ⭐
This was everything a book with the bodyguard trope should be! This was so SO much better than book one and has me so excited to dive into book 3 soon too!
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3.5 ⭐
This was everything a book with the bodyguard trope should be! This was so SO much better than book one and has me so excited to dive into book 3 soon too!
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27/04/2022
3 ⭐️
I love the bodyguard trope but the romance just felt too shallow so I never got on board with it. 🤷♀️
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3 ⭐️
I love the bodyguard trope but the romance just felt too shallow so I never got on board with it. 🤷♀️
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25/04/2022
4 ⭐
I have genuinely no idea what I want to rate this book.
It's taken me a lot longer than I thought it would, for me to read it because it was genuinely so hard to get through. Tori is a depressed teenager who lives in a house where she's tasked with taking care of her younger brothers, one is literally a seven-year-old and the other is dealing with an eating disorder (and maybe OCD???) and needs some quite serious and adult help, and on top of that her parents are basically absentee parents who do nothing but judge and belittle their children for daring to exist or live outside the binary.
Solitaire is a really complex and well-written novel about an angry girl with mental health issues. She's angsty because so many teenagers are. She hates Disney and Twilight (and honestly, at her age, so did I), and she doesn't know how to be happy. But, she makes a friend and she tries her hardest even though it feels like the entire world is on her shoulders dragging her down. The tag line for this book is that it's "not a love story" and I've seen a lot of people dispute that, but I have to agree with the tag. I don't think this is a love story at all. I think it's a story about a young girl trying to continue living and trying to keep her family afloat despite not knowing how to. It's about a girl who can barely stand herself, trying to live and trying to be better and I love Alice Oseman for writing this story. Yes, it is slightly a product of its time because we're now in 2022, "The Age of Toxic Positivity". But, teenagers are all different on the inside and some of them do try to break from the mould and they do that in small ways like hating the Top 40 on the radio and not liking Pride and Prejudice. And that's fine. If we give teenagers the space and support they need to grow, then they will and I think that's wonderful and that's why I loved this book.
4 star rating because this is a complicated and well-written novel, but on the surface level I genuinely wanted to give this only 2 stars because reading from the pov of a depressed teenager is genuinely hard and not fun at all.
But, I think that if we want to bitch about never getting to read from the pov of different character types and angry girls then we should appreciate them when they appear. Tori has a lot on her plate and is clearly depressed (I say this as someone who has never experienced depression, only anxiety) so I don't think we can fault her for feeling the way that she feels or thinking the things that she thinks. Being a teenager is hard enough, let alone dealing with mental health issues. Yeah, this was a hard read and if you didn't like it, you didn't like it and that's fair enough. But, I think this was a really clever novel, even if I didn't enjoy actually reading it the whole time.
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4 ⭐
I have genuinely no idea what I want to rate this book.
It's taken me a lot longer than I thought it would, for me to read it because it was genuinely so hard to get through. Tori is a depressed teenager who lives in a house where she's tasked with taking care of her younger brothers, one is literally a seven-year-old and the other is dealing with an eating disorder (and maybe OCD???) and needs some quite serious and adult help, and on top of that her parents are basically absentee parents who do nothing but judge and belittle their children for daring to exist or live outside the binary.
Solitaire is a really complex and well-written novel about an angry girl with mental health issues. She's angsty because so many teenagers are. She hates Disney and Twilight (and honestly, at her age, so did I), and she doesn't know how to be happy. But, she makes a friend and she tries her hardest even though it feels like the entire world is on her shoulders dragging her down. The tag line for this book is that it's "not a love story" and I've seen a lot of people dispute that, but I have to agree with the tag. I don't think this is a love story at all. I think it's a story about a young girl trying to continue living and trying to keep her family afloat despite not knowing how to. It's about a girl who can barely stand herself, trying to live and trying to be better and I love Alice Oseman for writing this story. Yes, it is slightly a product of its time because we're now in 2022, "The Age of Toxic Positivity". But, teenagers are all different on the inside and some of them do try to break from the mould and they do that in small ways like hating the Top 40 on the radio and not liking Pride and Prejudice. And that's fine. If we give teenagers the space and support they need to grow, then they will and I think that's wonderful and that's why I loved this book.
4 star rating because this is a complicated and well-written novel, but on the surface level I genuinely wanted to give this only 2 stars because reading from the pov of a depressed teenager is genuinely hard and not fun at all.
But, I think that if we want to bitch about never getting to read from the pov of different character types and angry girls then we should appreciate them when they appear. Tori has a lot on her plate and is clearly depressed (I say this as someone who has never experienced depression, only anxiety) so I don't think we can fault her for feeling the way that she feels or thinking the things that she thinks. Being a teenager is hard enough, let alone dealing with mental health issues. Yeah, this was a hard read and if you didn't like it, you didn't like it and that's fair enough. But, I think this was a really clever novel, even if I didn't enjoy actually reading it the whole time.
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04/11/2024
3.5 ⭐️
I know this novella is so much about Charlie but my god, i need someone to pay more than a millisecond of attention to Tori.
24/04/2022
3.5 ⭐
That was HEAVY but so so good and so so relatable??? I will absolutely be reading Solitaire asap!!
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3.5 ⭐️
I know this novella is so much about Charlie but my god, i need someone to pay more than a millisecond of attention to Tori.
24/04/2022
3.5 ⭐
That was HEAVY but so so good and so so relatable??? I will absolutely be reading Solitaire asap!!
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29/11/2024
4 ⭐️
There’s nothing quite like reading a heart breaking romance over breakfast in the morning! Probably should have at least waited to finish my toast before I picked this one up.
23/04/2022
3 ⭐️
So gosh darn cute!
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4 ⭐️
There’s nothing quite like reading a heart breaking romance over breakfast in the morning! Probably should have at least waited to finish my toast before I picked this one up.
23/04/2022
3 ⭐️
So gosh darn cute!
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18/04/2022
3 ⭐
Ngl this was actually pretty damn cute!
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3 ⭐
Ngl this was actually pretty damn cute!
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17/04/2022
3 ⭐
Well, that was mentally exhausting. We spent so much time, in the beginning, being traumatised by the awful husband that I feel like this book actually went too quickly in the end with the diner and Cole.
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3 ⭐
Well, that was mentally exhausting. We spent so much time, in the beginning, being traumatised by the awful husband that I feel like this book actually went too quickly in the end with the diner and Cole.
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08/02/2024
5 ⭐
If I had to describe this book in one word, I'd go with comforting because holy hell I have been just chilling all morning with a smile on my face!
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20/03/2023
4 ⭐️
I love this more and more every reread.
13/01/2023
3.5 ⭐️
An absolute fucking joy. I love a simp and his lil family.
30/07/2022
3.5 ⭐
I definitely enjoyed this more this time around, there's just something so addicting about small-town romances!
17/04/2022
3 ⭐
That man really said "I want that one" and then 5 seconds later had her moving in and was calling her son his too. He really put his whole man-ussy into the relationship and didn't look back. We love commitment but this dude went a little too crazy with it.
The epilogues were cute though???
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08/02/2024
5 ⭐
If I had to describe this book in one word, I'd go with comforting because holy hell I have been just chilling all morning with a smile on my face!
read for Hoemanceathon round 1
20/03/2023
4 ⭐️
I love this more and more every reread.
13/01/2023
3.5 ⭐️
An absolute fucking joy. I love a simp and his lil family.
30/07/2022
3.5 ⭐
I definitely enjoyed this more this time around, there's just something so addicting about small-town romances!
17/04/2022
3 ⭐
That man really said "I want that one" and then 5 seconds later had her moving in and was calling her son his too. He really put his whole man-ussy into the relationship and didn't look back. We love commitment but this dude went a little too crazy with it.
The epilogues were cute though???
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