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A review by eloise_bradbooks
Solitaire by Alice Oseman
3.0
* 2019 TALK:
I'm not going to rant anymore around this book. Rereading it was actually more enjoyable than the first time reading it 3 years ago. I must have been in a bad mood cause Tory can actually be very relatable even though she's annoying. She's a true angsty and depressed teen.
WHAT I WILL TALK ABOUT: Is Alice Oseman.
Please please please go read all of Alice's other stories. They are beautiful, wholesome, heartfelt, have great rep of all kinds and depict teens in the most realistic way EVER!
- Please read the (web)comic Heartstopper where two boys (Tory's brother Charlie and his now bf Nick) meet and fall in love (with topics surrounding identity, mental health, eating disorders).
- I Was Born For This depicts the good and the bad of fandom, obsessing over a band, being in a successful band when you have anxiety, and friendship (with a muslim MC and a trans MC + other types of rep).
- Then, of course, you have my fave : Radio Silence. Platonic soulmates dealing with the fear of university, expectations, art, making a webcomic together and friendship. FRIENDSHIP!
* 2016 REVIEW : 2.5 /5
I felt connected to multiple aspects of this story which allowed me to finish this book. However it was very difficult to appreciate a story when the main character and narrator hates everything so much. I really wonder how people around her actually liked her... Also, how can we be interested in the mystery part of the plot of Tory herself isn't?
I'm not going to rant anymore around this book. Rereading it was actually more enjoyable than the first time reading it 3 years ago. I must have been in a bad mood cause Tory can actually be very relatable even though she's annoying. She's a true angsty and depressed teen.
WHAT I WILL TALK ABOUT: Is Alice Oseman.
Please please please go read all of Alice's other stories. They are beautiful, wholesome, heartfelt, have great rep of all kinds and depict teens in the most realistic way EVER!
- Please read the (web)comic Heartstopper where two boys (Tory's brother Charlie and his now bf Nick) meet and fall in love (with topics surrounding identity, mental health, eating disorders).
- I Was Born For This depicts the good and the bad of fandom, obsessing over a band, being in a successful band when you have anxiety, and friendship (with a muslim MC and a trans MC + other types of rep).
- Then, of course, you have my fave : Radio Silence. Platonic soulmates dealing with the fear of university, expectations, art, making a webcomic together and friendship. FRIENDSHIP!
* 2016 REVIEW : 2.5 /5
I felt connected to multiple aspects of this story which allowed me to finish this book. However it was very difficult to appreciate a story when the main character and narrator hates everything so much. I really wonder how people around her actually liked her... Also, how can we be interested in the mystery part of the plot of Tory herself isn't?