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A review by galacticvampire
XOXO by Christina Lee
2.0
I am absolutely sure this was originally written to be set in a private school because absolutely none if them behave as if they were in college.
From the casual bullying over cheap clothes (??) to gossip about who is friends with whom it all felt extremely juvenile. Which only made it more jarring when the lighthearted tone shifted to explicit sex. Multiple times.
The romance was also kind of lackluster, even if the characters individually were interesting. Their separate journey was just way more interesting than a dynamic that was 90% omgg he's Just So Hot.
(More baffling than it all is that a major plot point is that one of the characters' dad forces him to hide he had cancer because people would think he was weak??? And proceeds to closely watch his college life through his coach??)
This is well written and I think the author has a lot of potential if only the actual plot made any sense.
From the casual bullying over cheap clothes (??) to gossip about who is friends with whom it all felt extremely juvenile. Which only made it more jarring when the lighthearted tone shifted to explicit sex. Multiple times.
The romance was also kind of lackluster, even if the characters individually were interesting. Their separate journey was just way more interesting than a dynamic that was 90% omgg he's Just So Hot.
(More baffling than it all is that a major plot point is that one of the characters' dad forces him to hide he had cancer because people would think he was weak??? And proceeds to closely watch his college life through his coach??)
This is well written and I think the author has a lot of potential if only the actual plot made any sense.