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Mireille Chartier

I liked it

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 29, 2020

“It would say, There's nothing wrong with you. You're doing just fine.”

I grabbed this one mainly because of the title and the cover. I wasn't a person that went out a lot in my teens. While all my friends went to parties and clubs I much preferred to stay home and just read or watch TV in a time where Netflix didn't exist! Gasp! The horror. So this book called out to me like the beacons of Gondor.

Late to the Party was such a good read. It made me relive my teen years all over again but with a different outcome in the end. Codi feels a bit trap in her relationship with her best friends. She wants to experience life but doesn't seem to know how to do it with them. They keep calling her reliable and it's a word that she is tired of hearing so she decides to live a double life and have a summer of firsts. Codi was so relatable to me. Her journey reminded me so much of myself back then and maybe a little of me now. It also got me thinking about how we put each other in certain boxes. I am still friends with people from primary/secondary school and I wondering if I am still that same person to them. It's strange when you think about it how you can be a different person to everyone. Don't you wish sometime you could reinvent yourself like Codi?

I loved the diversity in this book. There was so many LGBTQ+ reps it warmed my little black heart. You could also feel the solidarity and support between them. Codi and Ricki were there for each other even if their friendship was really new. They helped each other figure things out no questions asked. It was nice to see a story with such a great cast of LGBTQ+ characters.

I really enjoyed Late to the Party it was a cute short-ish book that you could read in one sitting. I haven't read anything else by Kelly Quindlen but I will be keeping an eye out for her.

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Lily

great!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 5, 2022

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i really liked the book itself but it wasn’t in that great condition. the back cover was printed too short so it didn’t cover the last page. the book also had some dents on edges and wasn’t regular book size. these things weren’t that noticeable except the size though. would still recommend it!!

yvonne noetzel

Gerne wieder

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on April 3, 2022

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Buch war für meine Tochter die es gerne gelesen hat

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Anna

Great read but...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 11, 2020

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This is a great book and I love Kelly Quindlen's writing but I needed more from that ending. Also I felt very frustrated with how bad of a friend Codi was to her best friends and again, I needed the story to be better wrapped up. Legit thought (and still do) that someone ripped out a chapter from the back of my book. It's so open-ended, so many things aren't answered and I don't even necessarily feel like I got a resolution for some plot stuff. And I have a feeling that was an artistic choice about how in real life things aren't wrapped up with a bow but guess what, this aint' real life and I want it wrapped up with a bow when I read a book lol.

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RebeccaF

Gute Story, weniger Dramatik als Her Name in the Sky

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on August 3, 2020

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Ich bin deutlich älter als die Hauptcharaktere in diesem Buch. Dennoch konnte ich mich sehr gut in sie hinein versetzen. Die drei Außenseiter Codi, Maritza und Jakory wollen in ihren letzten Sommerferien an der High School unbedingt etwas erleben, insbesondere erste sexuelle Erfahrungen machen.
Maritza versucht es mit der Brechstange, JaKory über das Internet. Für Codi ändert sich alles, als sie auf dem Weg zu einer Party den schwulen Ricky kennen lernt. Von da an überstürzen sich für sie die Ereignisse, die sie aber vor ihren besten Freunden verheimlicht. Dadurch wird ihre Freundschaft letztendlich auf eine harte Probe gestellt.
Insgesamt eine interessante und lehrreiche Geschichte. Weniger Dramatik als Her Name In The Sky

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