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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 November 2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
#ThinkFirst is the most important message to take from this book, especially with all the constant discourse on Booktok. Everyone who believes in cancel culture, everyone who believes in guilty until proved innocent, and everyone who believes there's no smoke without fire should read this book. Fortunately, I'm none of those people so I spent a lot of this book frustrated; this felt so real and could be many people's story. I was so angry when reading a lot of this and because of that, the book was always going to get a high rating from me.
When I first heard about The List, months ago, I knew I absolutely had to read it. And I'm so glad that I did. The use of culture and emotions added so much to this story; it was so emotive and so informative. Had Ola's actions been different then I probably would have given this 5 stars but I didn't feel like we had enough of the background of their relationship to work out whether what she did was justified? At this point I don't think it was and I don't feel any sympathy towards her chatacter, whereas I wanted to be rooting for them both.
A really thought-provoking read.
#ThinkFirst
#ThinkFirst is the most important message to take from this book, especially with all the constant discourse on Booktok. Everyone who believes in cancel culture, everyone who believes in guilty until proved innocent, and everyone who believes there's no smoke without fire should read this book. Fortunately, I'm none of those people so I spent a lot of this book frustrated; this felt so real and could be many people's story. I was so angry when reading a lot of this and because of that, the book was always going to get a high rating from me.
When I first heard about The List, months ago, I knew I absolutely had to read it. And I'm so glad that I did. The use of culture and emotions added so much to this story; it was so emotive and so informative. Had Ola's actions been different then I probably would have given this 5 stars but I didn't feel like we had enough of the background of their relationship to work out whether what she did was justified? At this point I don't think it was and I don't feel any sympathy towards her chatacter, whereas I wanted to be rooting for them both.
A really thought-provoking read.
#ThinkFirst
