390 reviews for:

West Side Love Story

Priscilla Oliveras

3.69 AVERAGE

missbookreader's review against another edition

3.75

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

karasin's review

3.0

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

mackinstyle's review

4.25

adventurous funny hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kelsiejankowski's review against another edition

3.0

emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

nualawhly0's review against another edition

3.0

emotional inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

usualjellyfish's review against another edition

2.75

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

slkropp's review against another edition

3.75

lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

goodeyreads's review

2.0

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BLEH.

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I wanted to love this so badly y’all. SO BADLY.

The culture and setting? Absolutely loved those. The reason I gave it even 2 stars to begin with. Everything else made me wish I just hadn’t finished.

I think my biggest issue was the writing style. It was intensely focused on over explanation factors. The main plot points were repeated almost every chapter and it needed more substance than that. And anything to do with the characters was mapped out or shown many yards before the character actually did something.

The romance had some cute moments. I didn’t totally find it at fault. The love scenes (even including the kissing scenes) made me straight up cringe. Not smooth or engaging. Poor word choices that I was not a fan of.

Anyways, I’ll stop. This didn’t work for me. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t for you.

Overall audience notes:
- Contemporary Romance
- Language: some strong
- Romance: open door
- Trigger/Content Warnings: gentrification, a sibling who runs away, physical altercations 

julialowebe's review against another edition

4.25

lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

thepolishedbibliophile's review

5.0

emotional lighthearted fast-paced

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Priscilla Oliveras has written a story that is rich in culture and strong characters.  The Capuletas immediately had me hooked on their story, from an all female mariachi band to strong family and sister connections.  This story was a fantastic nod to "Romeo and Juliet" with a modern, latinx romance!  Mariana and Angelo are great characters, whom I loved getting to know throughout the story.  I binged this book so quickly, I was immersed in the story!  Thank you to Montlake and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this story!  All thoughts and opinions are my own!