BOOK REVIEW: JOSH AND HAZEL'S GUIDE TO NOT DATING BY CHRISTINA LAUREN
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i love that u forgot to do ur thumbnail we love a relatable queen, also ur sweater is objectively cute ok!!
thumbnails are hard and even when i try, i look like a dweeb 80% of the time idk it be hard out here
Love your reviews and how you delve into your reactions to specific events in the book!
thank you so much!! i usually try to balance criticism with plain plot reactions, but this one is definitely a lot of reaction lol
The ending really killed it for me
ugh glad i'm not the only one
19Isa09 Agreed! The book was pretty cute and then the ending was read and i just said ..... Why? What? Was that needed? I hear you ...
One Christina Lauren Book I can definitely recommend is „Autoboyography“. I really loved that one
ok quite a few people have been recommending this one in particular!! i'm definitely going to have to check it out
thebookbasement would love to hear your thoughts on it 😊
You should read Aotoboyography by Christina Lauren. IT's not a rom-com. It deals with the relationship of faith and homosexuality, and is written very beautifully.
ooh, that sounds really interesting. the balance of faith and homosexuality is one that i think is particularly fascinating, so i'd love to check it out! thanks for the rec!!
I love her voice and I loved this audiobook
I loved this book sooooooo much 🥰🥰🥰 it’s one of the funniest books I’ve read
I just started reading Christina Lauren this year! I'm with you on the ending trope hate, ugh. I either find their books mildly enjoyable, or I love them. My loves of theirs are Autoboyography for YA and Love and Other Words, technically adult but it's infused with YA.
ooh, okay, thank you for the recs!! i'm going to have to check them out. i like your range of "mildly enjoyable" to loving them lol. that's relatable
Finished this in two day. It was definitely enjoyable. The ending was cute but not something I’d want to actually see. Would love to see Simu Liu play Josh. I know he’s Chinese but he plays a Korean too. Nice review, glad I found it
I LOVE THIS BOOK AMAZING♥️
I RECOMMEND YOU READ THE UNHONEYMOONERS FIRST AND THEN THISSSS
You should read Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren. It is SO good, by far my favourite of theirs, and also involves a person of colour. And a shared love of books. :)
Also interesting you pulled out the Twilight fanfic thing since that's how these 2 came together in the first place. Their Beautiful Bastard series was twilight fanfic that got published and expanded from there.
omg thank you for letting me know about the beautiful bastard series. i feel like a twilight fanfic detective of some kind and i'm oddly proud of it. also, thank you for the rec!! someone else mentioned love and other words, so i'm definitely gonna look more into that one!
100% agree about representation and about character weight... especially with actual numbers. The other aspect of representation in YA I’ve been thinking about lately is wealth. Almost all of the YA characters I’ve read are solidly middle/upper-middle class. I imagine this has something to do with author demographics, but I have no evidence to support that hypothesis.
Girl SAME
you're definitely correct about class. i think we're getting more and more diversity in terms of race and ethnicity and sexuality, but not so much in SES. i'm sure a huge part of it is escapism--people want to read books where characters are doing great things and maybe authors/publishers don't think it's marketable to have financial strain be a big part of the story? idk just a theory
I so relate to your initial reaction to their names, I haven't read this yet but I'm shocked about how no one talks about the extreme lack of representation in New Adult books. There's been so many strides in representation & diversity in young adult books, but I feel like every NA I pick up has an all white cast of characters, and Christina Lauren are definitely guilty of that in the past, but I'm so happy to hear they have a Korean american love interest in this book! Definitely makes me more eager to pick this up!
I've read a bunch of their books and some are hit or miss, but I loved their YA book 'Autoboyography', it had great representation of LGBTQ characters and its defs my fav book by them!! Their first book is called 'Beautiful Bastard' and was originally self published twilight fan fic that went viral hahaha your twilight vibes radar was spot on loool
ALSO this is the longest comment ever, but wow I never thought about why the mention of weight as character descriptions bugs me so much, but your little rant was spot on. I also hate the cliche first person train of thought, very common in NA books, of girls like "ugh I hate my huge boobs and giant butt but at least I have a tiny waist!!" STOP omg
Fuzzybucket I disagree, NA selection is a lot smaller than YA or adult fiction because it’s a fairly new genre but it’s rapidly grown in popularity over the past couple years with authors like Christina Lauren & Colleen Hoover hitting best sellers lists again and again. There’s plenty of published NA books, like this book, but they’re usually categorized as romance or adult fiction. There’s definitely an audience & market for this genre and I still think it deserves more diversity
Fuzzybucket 5 years is very new for a genre of books considering YA books have been around for decades 😂 hmm I guess that makes sense from a publishing stand point, I hadn’t thought of that, but from a consumer standpoint, the audience is definitely still there for NA. The reason why Hoover is ranking in the dough is because she has growing market to sell to
ok THANK YOU for this long and thoughtful comment! i LOVE to read things like this!!!
to be honest, i haven't read that much NA, so i can't speak too much on representation, but it honestly wouldn't surprise me if the genre were very white. i think looking at a list of new adult author names gives you a sense of what their characters are like. at the very least, you get a sense that there are very few #ownvoices authors.
also WOW i am honestly so impressed w myself about the twilight fanfiction thing. i honestly can't even describe it properly, but sometimes, twilight fanfic just has a certain ~vibe~.
and omg lmaoooo @ the description of the ideal "beautiful" body used for every character ever. i'm like, hmmmm... can we get a girl who needs to squeeze into her jeans bc she has thicc thighs or something pls
Got an ad just as you said 321 lol.
still watching but i want to comment first
thank u for this dedication i love it lol
Yess so glad I found a poc perspective on literature
I AM HERE FOR YOU!!!! this is a service i love to provide
totally agree on your comments about the weight issue
yea i just think it's very unnecessary and the risk of negatively influencing a reader is not worth it!
@@bookishsophia you are totally right!
That line regarding weight in this book bothered me so much, I cringed😖 Other than that, this was so enjoyable. Such a cute, fast read💕
it was so fast!! it really flew by
I listened to the audiobook and the man that spoke for Josh had the most annoying voice so that made it harder for me to get through ut
I'm a black woman. I had to stop listening to this review. So friggin' tired of 'representation for this, identify as that, race this blah blah blah'. Can't get away from these fragile people!! Just wanted to know if the book is any good. Off to find another review.
Awful book, dnf'ed
“This book is gonna be so white” awwww love that passive aggressive racism there, really lovely to see! Great that it’s somewhat acceptable now. Imagine watching a review and someone says “the main character’s name was Latisha and I thought this book is gonna so black!” Just gross across the board. Little embarrassed I was subscribed to you. Bye now x
Ryuko Matoi hop off sophia is a queen
i considered responding with the amount of sass and disrespect you used to start this conversation, but my desire for my channel to be an open, brave space dedicated to continuous education and perspective-development outweighed that temptation. perhaps you've already exited this dialogue and the rest of this comment will be lost on you--the one person i really hope reads this--but nonetheless, i'm going to try to spell out why i think you're approaching this in a problematic way. saying that a book is going to be white isn't passive aggressive racism, or racism at all. it's an expression of a historically lasting exhaustion from consuming white narratives over and over again and the pain of the erasure of (equally valid, but disproportionately dismissed) POC narratives. you use an example of switching out races to defend your accusation of racism. unfortunately, you can't simply replace one race with another and expect the connotation of the sentence to remain the same. you're saying that blacks and whites are equal--when historically, culturally, politically, and economically, that couldn't be further from the truth. what we really need to consider here is the idea that equality is not equity. here's a very short link that describes what i'm talking about: edtrust.org/the-equity-line/equity-and-equality-are-not-equal/. the opposite of racism is not treating all races equally--it's providing better care and support for the people who historically have been stripped of those things in order to try to create better balance. now, i've tried my best to explain this rationally, but let me know if you need more elaboration. miss me with this passive aggressive condescension next time.
thebookbasement 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 I love this response and will be using your definitions in the future.