Meet Cute Diary

MC is 16, pampered, sheltered, and from a relatively wealthy family so... the character is expectedly pretty emotionally immature. He's an a**hole to the people who care about him. There was some character development and I'm sure he's on the road toward emotional depth and empathy in his 20's but the book is not that long...

Devin is precious and I wish eir story line had started sooner. E's the only reason I finished tbh. I relate.

i'm giving this book a 4.75, there was poc rep & trans/gay-lesbian/ace rep, it felt very inclusive & the overall story was adorable, it was quite predictable but like, obviously, this would definitely be a comfort read for me later on, i really did enjoy this story a lot it's super light & fun and just overall a good time, i also listened to it on audiobook which was nice as well :)

DNF @ 51%.

I appreciate what this book was trying to achieve and I liked the diary aspect of it but my main issue is the main character. Not only is he immature and self centred but are we really expected to believe a 16 year old would be looking for love so much?? Sorry but I just couldn't get my head around it. If the character had been 19/20 it would have been much more believable and enjoyable.

this was a really sweet read! It was also a really frustrating reminder to me that I'm an adult and YA books are for teens. Like when Noah gets his credit card cut off because of spending too much money on Ubers instead of walking?? I was like NOAH that card was for EMERGENCIES you KNOW your family is having a hard time financially right now!!! Like I too had an emergency credit card as a teen that I don't think I ever used bc I wasn't sure what would constitute an EMERGENCY and I didn't want to get in TROUBLE.

Anyway that stuff is like a minor part of the book but it really had me clutchin my pearls. This does not reflect the quality of the book it just reflects what kind of teen I was.

The romance is sweet here and I like that it also doubles as a kind of Intro to Pronoun Etiquette that I think a lot of teens will find helpful/validating to read.

this is the kind of book that makes me want to stop reading ya for a while.

it's not necessarily bad, it's just that the protagonist is so infuriatingly immature and selfish that i just cannot vibe with it at all. i think i'm just simply too old to enjoy a book like this even though there were some elements/characters that i liked.