sunshinecapturer's Reviews (271)

 I thought this book would be more like the first chapter where she really talks about tackiness, but I read the synopsis too fast, so that's on me.
I liked the book well enough, she's a great writer and if I have to read about real people's personal lives I like to do it in this essay style combined with other topics. It was interesting and funny, even if there was an awful lot of sex and men who were...icky. 

things I didn't like about this book:
- nothing, except maybe that it ended. It went directly to my favourites shelf once I finished it.

things I liked about this book:
- EVERYTHING, and I mean that. I loved all the characters, especially the queer side characters, I loved the soccer, I loved the romance and the spicy scenes (there was one main one and after that it wasn't crazy detailed and I really appreciate that, it gets boring after a while), I loved that one of the main characters has ADHD, I loved the main characters!! They both were so great in different ways!! I loved that the miscommunication was well done/believable (typical lesbian problem lol) and I loved that this book has a happy ending. 
It's such a perfect entertaining but feel good lesbia  story, I would give it six stars if I could.

The things I didn't like: 
- This books reads like no editor was involved in the publishing process. There's some formatting things that bothered me, like internal monolog being in quotes like 'this', instead of italics, and just an awful amount of ALL CAPS USED when a character is speaking.
- There were a lot of things characters said that I cringed at, like calling each other "dopey" and "douchey", using "hoes" as a term of affection, calling their house "Babe Cave", and their motto for the year, "no ragrets". One of the characters greets her brother with "brother dearest" and "brother". That, combined with some descriptions of clothing and music gave the book the feeling of being published in the mid 2010s, not 2021. 
- A few side characters suffered at the hand of the author onl  knew how to give them any personality by assignin  them a nationality, and have them sprinkle in phrases from a different language. 
- The characters are supposed to be uni students, yet too many of them talk like they're housewives in their 50s. 
- And this was only a small paragraph but the land acknowledgment and acknowledgment of the origins of lacrosse was awkward, poorly done, and ridiculously self congratulatory. 
- I know the spicy scenes are why a lot of people like this book, and while they were spicy, I was still cringing at the awkward dialog between and characters as well as the way they would talk about each other'  bodies.  (And very minor spoiler, but why tf would you ever buy someone pink tulips and say it's because the pink reminded you of their vulva?!? What!?!? 💀😭) 

The things I was okay with/kinda liked: 
- the plot wasn't actually too bad, and I think if this book had a solid editor and a few more rewrites it could be made into a good story 
- the setting of Halifax/Canada was nice to see 
- the descriptions of lacrosse being played seemed pretty realistic

The whole thing read like fanfic written in 2015, so if that's something you can put up with, have at it! It wasn't for me. 

Absolutely loved this collection of poetry. 10/10 it's going straight onto my favorites shelf 

I really like her style of poetry, however I didn't really click with a lot of the poems in this book. Looking forward to reading some of her other work!  

It's a good story, but to be entirely honest I liked the show more than the book.

There were some little parts in the book that were probably meant to be funny but were actually quite inappropriate and not funny at all.

And another quarter point removed because it's written by Neil Gaiman and I have PROBLEMS with that man, starting with how he writes women. 

Crowley and Aziraphale though??? ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Fantastic. Amazing. Terrific. I want to see more of them.