bookclubbitches's Reviews (2.32k)

OOF. 

I finished this book mainly to be able to read her next book about Sage. 

I really wanted to enjoy this. If I had read this in 2009, I would have been absolutely SMITTEN and on Ellie's side about everything. Unfortunately, reading this as an adult, even as an adult who really enjoys YA, this was just so cringy and the plot was so so so obvious. 

The fact that this was also written. In 2021 with THAT many Harry Potter references, it's just inexcusable. 

I am not writing this author off forever, I really enjoyed her second book and have heard great things about her newest publication but this debut was not great. 

A sweet story. 

I really enjoyed Ryland and thought he was so incredibly perfect for Sage. The ending was so sweet and I am glad Sage got an HEA and a new set of priorities. 

Another wonderfully written book by Aubrey Gordon!!!!!!! 

I really enjoyed the format this book is composed in. It made my non fiction journey a lot more digestible in smaller, easier to understand sections. 

A lot of the myths hit me hard, even as a fat person I still have fatphobic tendencies and thoughts that I need to unlearn. This book helped me see that and showed me what I need to work on. 

5 stars. SO GOOD. 

I really really love Iris. I have such a crush on her and I was rooting for her the entire time. 

Stevie was precious and a great representation of anxiety. I loved her growth throughout the book and I was so proud of her. 

HOWEVERRRR. The friends were SO meddlesome in this book. Without the pushing, nudging from the friend groups of both women, they wouldn't haven't ended up together. I feel like all the friends overstepped the boundaries of friendship and forced these two together. As the reader I was obviously rooting for them but idk. Felt weird. 

I gave this book a solid chance but it's just too detailed. I need to learn more about Scientology before this book might interest me. I just don't care for details about her daycare and nap schedule as a child and I need to move on from this book. 

I feel like I missed the holiday window for this one and I am just not in the mood for a New Years read now that i's January 7th. NOTE TO SELF: read this book in December 2024!!!

Ooooh where do I begin to express how much I LOVED this book. 

I had a basic idea of what this was about but it ended up being so much more. 

This was the best friends to lovers story I've ever read. The foundation of friendship and trust that Nick and Andy shared made their story even sweeter than it already was. I loved how carefully this story was crafted and how touchy the subject of being queer in the late 50's was handled with such love. Cat Sebastian did a wonderful job writing this lovely story. 

This book made me so uncomfortable in the most annoying way. I love it when books make me feel uncomfortable, question ethics, or question what I would do in a situation like the characters are dealing with.

 However, this book is completely pointless. I didn't understand what was happening the entire time. I found every single character incredibly insufferable, and I thought there was basically no point to this entire story. It ended what felt like on a mid thought. There was no resolution to the story and there was no point in reading it. I'm annoyed that I wasted time on this book. 

This book was recommended to me by my husband. I think he read it while he was severely depressed, because this book is absolutely terrible and I am not ideal audience for this book. 

This book highlighted if you terrible people in the introduction so I was hesitant to continue. In chapter 1, it quotes Serena and Venus Williams' Dad using the N word. It is not censored, not bleeped out, and it is fully typed out in the book. The author narrates this book and she did not censor herself. That is disgusting and even for 2017 it is acceptable. This book went straight to the trash. I refused to read this or recommend this to anybody I know