I love the theme of the different sections broken up onto the four seasons. This collection is a beautiful and personal telling. I found myself relating to a lot of the poems. Her style is very lyrical. I enjoy all the different subject matters that were talked about throughout the entire collection. I really enjoyed the different perspectives from Zara and Clare.

Claire and Zari are the best of friends, they know everything about one another.
But when Zari starts dating Zion she becomes withdrawn, everyone else might be fooled into believing Zari's lies as to why sh is covered in bruises but Clare knows better and she will fight to protect her best friend.

This book is written in Verse. I personally do not like reading books in verse because you can not connect fully with the characters,
I did like the story that was being told and the topic it dealt with.
If you enjoy reading books written in verse I would recommend picking this one up.

I am thankful for the publishers and netgalley for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Finally! A hi-lo novel in verse about REAL THINGS! Thank you!!!

As a librarian of many reluctant readers and English language learners, my hi-lo collection is well-worn and a constant area of development. You know what it's missing? A novel-in-verse. Hi-lo books have a rhythm all their own. Plots are often simpler while the content is gritty. For some, they find these books skim the surface and to those people I say:
EXACTLY.
That's what hi-lo is for. It's like a gateway chocolate before you eat the rest of the bag. It gets the kids reading! Then, if they come back and ask for more books like that, you go crazy and show them all the amazing things you have.

I adored the formatting, how accessible the language was, and the characterization. I feel like I know exactly who these girls are (and the boy I'd rather NOT know). The overwhelming message of friendship, support, and getting out of a violent situation are messages our teens need to hear.

If I could change one thing about this book, it would be to label each page clearly with the name of who is speaking. It is labelled whenever the narrator switches, but if I put the book down and came back later, it was sometimes a struggle to remember who was talking. If we're talking maximum accessibility here, I would love to see this changed before the actual printing. (I read an ARC version from NetGalley in exchange for this honest review.)

I have a very good friend named Zari. She's older than me, and 7 years ago got married to a guy who, let's say, was bad news altogether. I will not get into details, but after 18 month of marriage they filed for divorce. Needless to say, when I read the premise about this book, it hit home and very hard.

Zari meeting Dion was fateful enough to predict bag things happening. Just as in many, many teenage stories, once BFF gets a boyfriend, the other half BFF is thrown to the side and in this particular case, since Zari's parents didnt approve of her friendship with Claire, it was more than obvious that a very wide breach would open, until the day Claire noticed Zari with bruises.


it's hard to talk about teenage relationship abuse cause many don't even believe it's a thing. But newsflash: IT IS REAL. and not only that, it's a disease our society tries to hide in order not to unleash the pandemic. it's more common that you think and it affects many teenage girls (and boys, for that matter) around the world. Just cause you have a teenage boyfriend it doesn't mean he's automatically prince charming, right?

it's important we spread the word among our youth. The way this book is written is fantastic IMO, and it should be an optional read for young High Schoolers who are experiencing the throws of teen love.

Thank you to the publisher and author for the privilege of granting me this ARC.

This is a sad, yet heartwarming book about friendship. It's written in verse, but has a continuing (sp?) story, which made it an interesting read, but it got the message out in a way that one couldn't do with "regular" prose.

A noble attempt at fiction in verse but the domestic violence subplot felt contrived and the friendship between the two friends suffered from a lack of complexity. Much too "after school special."

3.5*
First of all, this is told in two perspectives that I misunderstood in the beginning so I had to start all over again, my fault. Second, this was good! Like... I haven't really enjoyed a poetry book or just wanted to pick one up in a while so I'm glad I enjoyed this one. Also, I never really read a poetry book in which the poems were linked (basically fiction in verse), normally it's just poems that are separate from each other beside the point of being about the same thing. This talks about abuse and I was not expecting that!

It was good, recommend!

Very good book. I found the poems short and very easy to understand. This book is all about teenage relationships, the good and also the bad and the ugly. I originally thought that this book was going to be about something completely different but I was pleasantly surprised when I started to read the book that it was every more interesting than I originally thought it would be. The only thing I didn't like about this book was the constant switch in perspectives it made it very hard to follow even though the author did a great job of stating who was speaking and when they switched. I just found it a little jarring. Very simple book but worth the read.

3 Stars!

I think this was a more of a it's me not you kinda thing, I wasn't as engaged as what I would of liked, however I can see why other people would enjoy this more than I did!

I loved the writing style in this book! It was very interesting the way Amanda was able to write the novel in verse. However, with the little graphics replacing some of the letters in the words it got confusing! Also, it needs a trigger warning for domestic violence so the audience will be able to know before hand if they can handle the content.

And We Call It Love tells a heart-warming story about friends who drift apart under pressure from the people around them.
I found the story interesting, the characters and plot compelling and well paced. The poetry was decent, written in a tone that reflects the characters' states of mind and experiences. The tone of the poems was used throughout to reflect on the development of the two main characters which I thought was smart.
I really enjoyed this book, I think most fans of YA will do too.

And We Call It Love by Amanda Vink is a heartbreaking story about abuse in teenage relationships. A lot of people don't think this stuff truly happens but it does and it is so sad to watch. Most teenage girls have low self-esteem so they just accept whatever guy shows them attention, even if that attention lands them with bruises and black eyes. This book had a somewhat better ending that most other abuse stories I have read. The ending had hope.

This was another one of those broken format Galleys, but aside from that, it was a wonderful collection of poetry that told an emotional story.

it was pretty average...
I was honestly expecting a LOT more from this, some are pretty but lack something...
the ideia its great but unfortunately she did not go deeper, wich I would have really appreciated...

I received And We Call It Love as an ARC from NetGalley. This title was not what I expected. I was expecting a novel and it was basically a poem or very short story. I thought the idea of the story was good but it should have been expanded.

I love this style of storytelling and I love love love stories about female friendships. There aren't enough good stories about female friendship and this was one. It also does a really good job of discussing abusive relationships.

This was interesting to me I never read something like this. It felt like a book and a poetry at the same time. I would love to read more books like this. I am curious to see if Amanda’s Vink will write more like this.

I received a e arc from netgalley inexchange for an honest review.
I was excited for this one however, I hated the writing style. I was interest to see how it would go since verse is not something I typically read. I discovered it wasn’t for me. I had trouble keeping up with who was talking and it seemed very choppy. Unfortunately I did not enjoy.

This was the fastest time I have finished a book. The format of this book was something i haven’t read in a long time so I was able to breeze through the book really quickly. I feel like maybe I would have enjoyed this book more if it was in paragraph form. I did enjoy how the author discussed topics such as abuse in relationships, how once friends get into relationships they don’t care about anything else, loss of a parent, etc. but I wish it was explored more I felt like the plot went ENTIRELY too fast and not a lot of things were talked about enough for me. Quick read though.

Although I am not into poetic stories, this did have a flow that I could comprehend. Regardless of the fact that the story is a bit of a rehash of others, it still may be worth your while. Enjoy!

Many thanks to both the Publisher and NetGalley for a close view at today's issues.