Complete-Nose2500 t1_jadlq4l wrote on February 28, 2023 at 5:56 PM

SPOILER:

My biggest gripe with this book was Sam confessing his love to Sadie. If the book was supposed to be focused on nonromantic love then why did Sam admit to having romantic feelings for Sadie???

I felt like all of the characters were very two-dimensional- which is why the death of Marx didn 't have an impact on me. He was characterized as being too 'puppy' like for me to really imagine him as a real person.... But I also read this directly after finishing 'The Great Believers' which to me had the most life-like characters I have ever encountered. So maybe if my reading order was different I would have a different opinion...

I think part of the reason why this book has garnered so much buzz is because it is the first literary fiction a lot of booktok consumers have come in contact with.

Did I think this book was entertaining and therefore enjoyable? Yes. Do I think it deserves awards, accolades, and being "the best book of 2022"? Absolutely not!

Potato_Lyn OP t1_jadnutl wrote on February 28, 2023 at 6:09 PM

For the first half of the book I actually thought/wondered if Sam might be under the umbrella of asexuality which I thought would've been really cool were it so, as we don't often at all have asexual protagonists buuuut yea turns out that wasn't the case unfortunately. I was a bit worried towards the end that with Marx no longer in the picture that Sam and Sadie might get together romantically but I'm so glad they didn't!

Hmmm... I might need to check out 'The Great Believers' too! :O