shaylee_reads's reviews
203 reviews

Very informative on love languages. Even though this book is targeted towards cis heteronormative married couple, I think it can help everyone improve any relationship both romantic and platonic.

This book is a great Introduction into anxious attachment styles and how to cope with one. A short but very Informative book that can help you understand your brain a little more and how you make connections with others. 

I decide to put on this audio book while I was cleaning my disaster of a room to get some motivation and I'm SOOO glad that I did. It was a very quick but informative read and it gave me so many tips to help with my ADHD and other mental disorders and the struggles I deal with on a daily basis. I also just loved how compassionate this book was, you can definitely tell that the author deeply cares about other people and wants to help them. 
I'm definitely gonna get a physical copy of this book so I can highlight all of my favorite quotes and methods to easily find. 
I highly recommend this book to anyone who deals with any sort of mental illness/disability and finds that they struggle with what other people would consider basic daily tasks. 

I really enjoyed this one it was a great back story and I really liked seeing Cal's mother. 

Even though I enjoyed this book more than the first, I still didn't love it. I found this book boring and I just don't think VIctoria Avyard's writing is for me. 

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This book is an amazing thought-provoking book and it showed me everything I do has an effect on people. 

This book is a beautiful piece of writing and I loved it. This book is the best LGBTQ+ book I have ever read, she includes a whole bunch of different sexualities and she does it so well and represents them perfectly.
SPOILERS AHEAD
I just barely finished this book but I just had to talk about it so I'm sorry if my writing is a little crazy.
The characters were amazing and well thought out and I want to learn more about all of these characters, I would read any book Becky writes about any of these characters. My favorite character was Simon himself, I loved his personality and I love how sensitive he is and it shows that man can be sensitive as well as manly. Even though we didn't find out that Blue was Bram in tel the end of the book, I still loved him and I loved him even more when we met him.
The love story was beautiful, I loved the Emails between Simon and Blue (Bram) and I loved how their romance grew. I loved how their love was not based on looks, they fell in love without ever seeing each other so looks didn't bring them together. I loved seeing them together at the end all of their chapters together were so cute, sensitive, and beautiful. I want more of them together please give me more.
Last let's talk about the search for Blue, I feel like I was the only one not to see that it was Bram when he was introduced at the beginning of the book and I felt so stupid when we found out because it made sense to me that it was Martin it just made sense to me.
Lastly let's talk about why I gave it this rating, When I had a little less than 100 pages left I was pretty sure that I was going to give this book 4 1\2 stars but when I finished this book, I began to cry because of how much I loved this book, I just could not give this book 5 stars. 

I wrote this review in 2019 and since then I have realized how problematic and creepy this story is. I still agree that this book is written very beautifully and it will always have a special place in my heart but I completely understand why this book is considered problematic and I honestly agree with all of the people saying the relationship between Elio and Oliver was creepy, inappropriate, and unhealthy. 
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Oh my God! So good! Was just as good as I had expected it to be. It was written so beautifully. The love story was amazing and so perfect. This book was just so good!