Book: The Odds of You A Novel by Kate Dramis
Reviewed by Anonymous
Rating: 5/5
5 stars, absolutely recommend reading this.
Reading this felt really full circle in a way, especially at the beginning. The first time I really heard about this book and the author was at New York Comic Con where I saw Kate Dramis speak on a panel, so I loved that tie in.
The ADHD representation in this book is SO incredibly well done and present throughout the book, not just an occasional mention here or there. Things such as references to executive disfunction of knowing something might only take an hour to do but being so overwhelmed you can't handle adding it to the list, and having your brain simply not cooperating with you. Seeing Sage going into a spiral with things and feeling stuck for not being able to figure our what her brain and body needs, and then Theo coming in, realizing things are wrong, and giving her the care, support, and help she needs in that moment was amazing. This was phenomenal from the ADHD perspective, but I also loved the interaction of the relationship with it and how authentic it felt.
This book has so much growth, emotion, and personal development throughout, which is really well layered in with the growing romance between Sage and Theo. There were a lot of other things throughout that I really appreciated as well, such as some of the stats and nerdiness - loved realizing the significance of the title. I loved the backdrop of the Isle of Skye for the majority of the book. Overall this is a really well done story and I can't wait to read more from Kate.
I was able to listen to part of this via audiobook, and unfortunately that was not my preference. This was performed by a solo narrator, and while I generally enjoyed the narration for Sage and the book in general, I really did not like the dialogue for characters where there were accents. Notably Emerson (the best friend) had a really bad/personally annoying to me southern accent, and I was not a huge fan of Theo's accent/voice either. This is still an absolutely excellent story, but I would recommend eyeball reading it over the audio if you are able.
Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for providing an ARC of this book!