cr: the stars and stripes between us

reading this so yall dont have to

okay so on pg 1 we’re introduced to nate and tiffany who are playing hockey i believe ??

literally...

sir-

he’s got a point but it this still doesnt sit right with me

oh god it’s starting

what

so im guessing this is our republican girl mc

my friend is researching for me trying to figure out if this author is even part of the lgbt+ community but all of her accounts are fairly new ?? and she has another book out with a different name ?? like ??

this is very sus

make it stop...i’m still on ch. 1

i’m pretty sure this CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN girl is hispanic or latina...someone pls make this make sense

i like tiffany honestly

what possessed this woman to write this book and then...publish it...?

this book wouldnt be that bad if it ended here

keep talkin bengo on

this is a joke right? it has to be. there’s no way it’s not. i’m so-

okay not only is the conservative female mc latina or hispanic but her best friend is a conservative half-Vietnamese half-malaysian woman who i’m pretty sure is dating a homophobic angry white boy...what are the odds of this

marina (the woman MC) is also an immigrant this just gets worse and worse

you’ve actually gotta be kidding me right now

“I don’t know, maybe there really are people who aren’t one gender or the other. I mean, we can’t read their minds. And lots of folks feel strongly about this, right? They’re lobbying to get the school to teach it in my biology classes. So it can’t just be made up.”

im guessing by the end of this book she’s either gonna be a liberal or they arent gonna be together at all...i’m rooting for both bc nate deserves better than marina

“leo and some indian kid” yeah okay

He’d tried, on more than one drunk occasion, to make things work with Leo. There was a myriad of reasons it was a stupid idea: they lived together, Nate was too pale and un-muscled to be Leo’s type, their friendship was too important. But when Nate stumbled home-

-after particularly bad rejections, it was Leo’s warmth he was drawn to, Leo’s voice that comforted, Leo’s friendship that sustained him. He knew it wasn’t really that kind of affection, for either of them.

idk im kinda hoping leo and nate end up together i meannnn

okay the way the author had nate describe the difference between sex and gender was actually really good...marina was asking conservative questions ab it and nate’s argument was calm and factual and just really good honestly

“That’s like saying wouldn’t it be better if we didn’t die? That’s not the world we live in.”
“People can change.”
hmmmm

i dont wanna read ab nate and marina when i’m rooting for nate and leo oof

i’m confused...did she tried to write this as enemies to lovers? cause i’m not seeing it

okay so she’s cuban

i am on page 50 and they still don’t know each other’s names

in any other book this could have been cute but it’s just not right for this book at all.

pls tell me he isnt gonna go find her at mass

as of current i genuinely have no idea what to think about this book...there’s a LOT to unpack here and i’m not even on page 100 yet

“Tiff and Leo would never understand, and worse, might be hurt by Nate defaulting to a straight-appearing relationship and amassing even more privilege and power.”

literally what even is this book??? this is the second line that is so blatantly biphobic and i can’t tell if it’s-

-the character’s internalized biphobia or the author’s biphobia but uhhhh

“im sure jesus would approve”
of your hate?? i mean im not expert but i dont think so...

ben just called the left’s views on racism a power play...

now i know i did not just read this with my own two eyeballs...what the eff

i bet ppl like ben thought hitler’s ideas and words were not dangerous

he literally just told her that pretty privilege is a thing and continues to overlook the fact that she’s a conservative because she’s pretty

godddgdgsgshhe this book has so much biphobia in it

i had to take a break from this to watch my comfort show for a little bit

nawt leo suggesting nate takes marina on a ski trip and sharing a hotel room...this book is so bad i hate it here

ive already decided it’s getting 1 star...there is no redemption arc for something that brands itself as roneo and juliet meet cancel culture

she seriously just sent him a laughing emoji...i hate her more and more every page that i read

“How would they react to him bringing home a conservative, a woman? He knew they’d be accepting; of course they would! But what if it created a schism where there hadn’t been one before, a feeling of otherness as Nate embraced the less oppressed side of his sexuality?-

-Would they think Nate was “going straight,” abandoning them for societal acceptance?”

i wish i didnt know how to read i truly do

after this he asked himself “how could he explain to them what he couldnt even explain to himself”

idk why you’d have to explain to your friends that you’re seeing a woman when you are openly bisexual but go off i guess

what exactly was the point in adding this ? what does it contribute other than a harmful word ? honestly

i’m not gonna pretend like the first kiss scene wasn’t cute because it was but i still hate it here

okay i retract my further statement ab actually liking tiffany she’s biphobic too

okay i cant keep my eyes open to read this anymore...i guess we’ll see how this ends in the morning

i lied i’m gonna try to keep reading i think they’re ab to do /it/

they did it

this book is honestly such a mess

also im pretty sure my nose i bleeding so im gonna blame that on this book too

“The world’s been in a mood since 2016.”

i mean he’s not wrong

“Do the Catholics spend as much time on their knees in the bedroom as they do in church?”

my face contorted

tiff FINALLY punched this ben dude in the face and honestly that’s the only thing i was looking forward to

the rage that filled me reading this...nate hun dont be an apologist ab this it’s not cute and it’s feeding the patriarchy

okay they literally do not talk about a single thing other than controversial and/or political topics that they mostly entirely disagree on? how are they expecting a relationship to last when it’s built on that

so all of their debates up until now have been actual debates but now they’re starting to argue and it’s boring

i think ben got doxxed

THE TENSION WHEN NATE IS MEETING MARI’S BROTHER OOP

y e a h

girl what

me with this whole book honestly

nate kinda went off on tiff and ben and it’d actually be a good argument for himself if he wasnt trying to defend ben

precisely that yes

i forgot this austin guy existed why is he randomly being dropped back into this

i dont trust people who would willingly move from the northeast to the south...absolutely not

okay no relationships are built on trust not debates/arguments about bigotry and human rights

“some compromises are bigger than others”
first of all im pretty sure this is plagiarism...idk where but i’ve definitely read this line somewhere before
second of all...HUMAN RIGHTS ARENT COMPROMISES

it’s the fault in our stars...”some infinities are bigger than other infinities”
maam...

okay so nate admitted he was testifying as a false witness for tiff against ben and now everyone’s talkin it our but leo and tiff left and now nate’s disappeared as mari is confessing her love

dear god there’s an epilogue

I FINISHED IT FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS GOOD I FINISHED THIS FREAKIN BOOK

i hated a lot of things ab this book but i think what i hated the most was the mention of nate being in a “straight-appearing” relationship on every other page

being bi and dating someone of the opposite sex doesnt make u any less bi

anyways, it ended with them getting back together bc i guess they broke up but after she finally confessed her love to his face they were like for no reason at all
shes going to CA for the summer and he’s visiting her for awhile or something like that

she’s still a republican. he’s still a democrat. it was all very bland. terrible book.