Review by Kita
May 6, 20194.9
This book was wonderfully amazing! The story was genuinely heartwarming and cute. I loved every single character, and that is rare for me. Every one of them felt real and with its own story, and most of them interacted together.
Oftentimes I found myself smiling, grinning and even laughing at times.
Everything wrapped up nicely in the end, there were no questions/situations left unresolved, it was so satisfying! I hate it when I finish a book and there are still things unexplained, and it's not a series.
If I'm being honest there were a few minor things that "bothered" me. Like initially I was a little distracted by the use of the present tense. Also at times became a little too sappy for my tastes, a tad exaggereted. Especially in the e-mail exchanges. But these little things are totally unimportant in the face of the whole story and book.
I also felt the tension of the final election like I was there.
Overall it was quite believable, even in its unusualness.
«a tongue-in-cheek parallel universe [...] escapist, trauma-soothing, alternate-but-realistic reality. Not a perfect world-one still believabli fucked up, just a little better, a little more optimistic.»
This is from the author's acknowledgments, and I think she truly accomplished that, in my opinion.
4.9
This book was wonderfully amazing! The story was genuinely heartwarming and cute. I loved every single character, and that is rare for me. Every one of them felt real and with its own story, and most of them interacted together.
Oftentimes I found myself smiling, grinning and even laughing at times.
Everything wrapped up nicely in the end, there were no questions/situations left unresolved, it was so satisfying! I hate it when I finish a book and there are still things unexplained, and it's not a series.
If I'm being honest there were a few minor things that "bothered" me. Like initially I was a little distracted by the use of the present tense. Also at times became a little too sappy for my tastes, a tad exaggereted. Especially in the e-mail exchanges. But these little things are totally unimportant in the face of the whole story and book.
I also felt the tension of the final election like I was there.
Overall it was quite believable, even in its unusualness.
«a tongue-in-cheek parallel universe [...] escapist, trauma-soothing, alternate-but-realistic reality. Not a perfect world-one still believabli fucked up, just a little better, a little more optimistic.»
This is from the author's acknowledgments, and I think she truly accomplished that, in my opinion.
