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Underneath the Sycamore Tree
Underneath the Sycamore Tree | B. Celeste
4 posts | 4 read | 2 to read
It happened in stages.My father left.My twin sister died of an incurable autoimmune disease.My mother started breaking down.Then I was diagnosed with the very thing that took my other half from me.That was when I realized Mama's eyes turned gold when she cried.So I moved in with my father and his new family--new wife, new son, new stepbrother.Kaiden Monroe made me feel normal.Hated. Cared for. Loathed. And ... loved.Somewhere along the way, I'd found solace in the boy with brooding eyes.But everything happens in stages.And nothing good ever lasts.
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Jennaree3
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Bailedbailed

I can't decide if it's a YA or just a really bad adult book. Some sexual themes, and with a step-brother which was so weird and kind of gross. I feel like the author expected the reader to be rooting for this romance as it unfurled but the reader wasn't. I wanted to care about the girl's relationship with her mother but I just didn't. Could not get into this one. Good framework, just terrible. Bailed 1/2 way. 3/10

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Jennaree3
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Up next as a rec from a Facebook book page. Bibliophiles all around us ❤️❤️

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kissmehardy
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Panpan

You see, if /I/ knew I had lupus and it had already killed my twin tragically young, I would not go an entire school year without regularly checking in with a PCP, but what do I know??? Sometimes we just have to suffer in life!! (Also, can we please get over the "rude boy is actually misunderstood and really cares deeply about this quiet, insecure girl" trope? I'm begging here.) #contemporaryromance #exceptnotreally #noHEA #alsobarelycontemp?

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sarah-bear
Mehso-so

This book was strange for me to read. It wasn‘t a bad story overall, and I did shed tears near the end, but her romantic/sexual relationship with her STEPBROTHER made me really uncomfy. They had an endearing thing going, but I just couldn‘t get past that their parents are literally married🥴