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A review by luluwoohoo
You're My Home by Katie Moore
challenging
hopeful
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.75
You're My Home by Katie Moore
☀️🌤️
Happy Pride Month!
A cute concept is lost amongst bland writing, a complete lack of editing, and a poor understanding of young men's behaviour.
I love some fluff, but this is just ridiculous. The entire book reads like one comfort scene after another, with the drama in between feeling less and less authentic as the story drags on. Yet somehow there's almost no plot in almost 500 pages. It covers a decent time period of 5-6 years but should have focused on specific moments with time jumps rather than becoming so damn repetitive.
Zach starts out as a sweet and sympathetic character, and I appreciate the focus on less masculine men, but he's given almost no character growth and is infantilised from the get go. The focus on his size and the constant crying doesn't match up with the personality he could have developed with such a confident best friend.
Brady is too 'perfect' and too protective to the point of being toxic. Their initial friendship is sweet but becomes so codependent it's clawing to read. All of the support characters are one-dimensional and forgettable, painted in total shades of black and white.
I had several issues with basic understanding of young men too. A thirteen year old boy doesn't need help climbing onto a bar stool, nor would he crawl into a total strangers lap to cry. The boys' behaviour was potentially passable at first but never grew into anything age appropriate, so they were always presented as childlike in a mildly creepy way.
This had potential to be a sweet romance but that whole idea gets lost amongst the unnecessary melodrama and ignorant stereotypes.
☀️🌤️
Happy Pride Month!
A cute concept is lost amongst bland writing, a complete lack of editing, and a poor understanding of young men's behaviour.
I love some fluff, but this is just ridiculous. The entire book reads like one comfort scene after another, with the drama in between feeling less and less authentic as the story drags on. Yet somehow there's almost no plot in almost 500 pages. It covers a decent time period of 5-6 years but should have focused on specific moments with time jumps rather than becoming so damn repetitive.
Zach starts out as a sweet and sympathetic character, and I appreciate the focus on less masculine men, but he's given almost no character growth and is infantilised from the get go. The focus on his size and the constant crying doesn't match up with the personality he could have developed with such a confident best friend.
Brady is too 'perfect' and too protective to the point of being toxic. Their initial friendship is sweet but becomes so codependent it's clawing to read. All of the support characters are one-dimensional and forgettable, painted in total shades of black and white.
I had several issues with basic understanding of young men too. A thirteen year old boy doesn't need help climbing onto a bar stool, nor would he crawl into a total strangers lap to cry. The boys' behaviour was potentially passable at first but never grew into anything age appropriate, so they were always presented as childlike in a mildly creepy way.
This had potential to be a sweet romance but that whole idea gets lost amongst the unnecessary melodrama and ignorant stereotypes.