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The Broposal by Sonora Reyes

32 reviews

mj_86's review against another edition

4.5

emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Racism

Moderate: Addiction, Physical abuse, Sexual content

Minor: Abortion, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

samantha_nicole_e's review against another edition

4.75

emotional lighthearted 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Alcohol

Moderate: Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism

Minor: Transphobia, Abortion

jay_is_gayyy's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Biphobia, Homophobia, Abortion

Minor: Drug abuse

what_karla_reads's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

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5/5 stars
2/5 spice

Tropes:
Best Friends to lovers 
Marriage of Convenience 
Close proximity 
Gay awakening
LGBTQIA rep 
Latinx MCs and culture
Trauma/healing 
Dual POV 

Just... all the feels. 
My rollercoaster of emotions was chaotic. I honestly went from anger to giddiness to "holy moly that was hot" to sweetness and then back to anger. I was ready to jump in the book and fight. But honestly this was such a great balance of real life and happy romance. I couldn't put it down and I really enjoyed getting to know these characters. Han and Kenny were just the best of friends and easily the sweetest couple. I was crying at their happy ending. Just... all the feels.

Overall, I highly recommend this book for all fans of LGBTQIA romance, MM romance, diverse characters, romances with heavy topics, and drag shows. Please read the trigger and content warnings before starting this book. 

Thank you to Netgalley and Forever (Grand Central Publishing) for the ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own and offered voluntarily.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia

Minor: Addiction, Abortion, Death of parent, Abandonment, Deportation

enneirdasomar's review against another edition

3.0

hopeful lighthearted medium-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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Homophobia

keraashley's review against another edition

3.75

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Honestly a bit heavier than I was anticipating, a lot of heavy topics, such as:

biphobia, death of a parent, child neglect, substance abuse, undocumented status, anxiety attacks, abusive partners

In that sense, with so much drama and intense things going on, the relationship didn’t get the time I think it deserved. 
But props for making Han have his gay crisis before the engagement bc if he was faking all of it, I would have DNF’ed.
Jackie, you villainous bitch, I hope you’re rotting in book hell somewhere.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Deportation

sara_ataglance's review against another edition

4.75

challenging emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship

Moderate: Deportation

Minor: Addiction, Biphobia, Death of parent

tenderbench's review against another edition

4.0

emotional tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abortion, Death of parent, Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Car accident

30something_reads's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I inhaled this book. My God, Han and Kenny are two of the sweetest characters I've read in a long while.

These boys loved each other SO much before they ever realized they were in love. And I adore a friends to lovers story when the author can really sell their backstory/friendship and Sonora Reyes does a great job with that here.

This has some really great things:

1. Marriage of convenience for citizenship, featuring childhood best friends. (Of course I'll marry you. I'd do anything for you, bro.)
2. How is anyone going to find this plan of ours believable if we don't practice kissing first? 
3. Joke's on you guys, everyone else already knew you were in love.
4. Queer awakening
5. Autism and executive dysfunction rep

I do think the final 25% of this book struggled a little in terms of story progression. There are a lot of external factors at play in Han and Kenny's story and it was a lot to try and wrap up without feeling like we were rushing through it all. 

But oh, that final chapter and epilogue just warmed my heart so thoroughly 🥹💕 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Deportation

Minor: Addiction, Biphobia, Child abuse, Cursing, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol

izzawit's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing sad tense 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Biphobia, Blood

Minor: Abortion