#genevieve wheeler

[klainesheilen]

[21.03.2026]

ohhhh, the lie u tell yourself that u head to the library to pick up only one book just to come back with 3 more and on the way home u will also grab a slice of cake. life is good

[companiontena]

my forever top recommendations ☕💭

✿ adelaide by genevieve wheeler

✿ lessons in chemistry by bonnie garmus

✿ the invisible life of addie larue by v.e. schwab

[thequotefairy]

It was tricky to explain how much light and darkness could exist in the same setting.

Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide

[proseandpinotnoir]

ADELAIDE by Genevieve Wheeler

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3.8/5 stars🌟🌟🌟🌟

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How could I not get disproportionately excited about Adelaide, a contemporary fiction debut recommended to fans of Stephanie Danler (an author whose cult I would join in 5 seconds if given the opportunity), with an alluring 4.21 stars on goodreads?

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I admittedly expected something more haunting, something that left me aching and empty at the same time. Instead, Adelaide carries a Buzzfeed-y, deeply millennial undercurrent that, in my opinion, prevents the plot from reaching its full potential.

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Adelaide is an empathetic, effervescent, outgoing American twenty-something, livelaughloving her way through life in glittery, sprawling London. She has wonderful friends, adventures galore (in the way you can only have adventures in your mid twenties), and she experiences, semi-regularly, the kinds of golden moments you wish you could freeze in amber.

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One look at Rory Hughes, and Adelaide falls into the slow-motion-double-vision-in-rose-blush type of love typically reserved, again, for one’s mid twenties. She loves his looks, charm, accent…and, just maybe, how he treats her like she’s nothing.

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I didn’t love how heavily Adelaide leans into millennial stereotypes. As a millennial, I think a lot of these stereotypes are rooted in some degree of truth, but Adelaide herself seems represent them in their most exaggerated form. She is a people pleaser to an unrealistic fault. She’s the sort of person who would organize a team building exercise after work, and think that everyone who shows up genuinely wants to be there. I can imagine her taking an “answer these 12 questions and we’ll tell you what your _____ is” quiz, and owning a mug that unironically says Girl Boss.

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She doesn’t know how to take care of herself, but repeatedly bends over backwards to take care of Rory, who has the opposite problem: he knows exactly how to take care of himself, but is incapable of taking care of Adelaide.

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It was hard to watch Adelaide get hurt a million little times. Her story holds quite a lot; I recommend it if you’re in the mood for a book that alternates between cute and dark, and willing to go into it with 0 expectations.

[desdasiwrites]

– Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Lina & June: A Novel

By Genevieve Wheeler.

[littlebitofbluelittlebitofcoffee]

Finished reading first book of 2026. Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler. It was familiar, sincere. I recommend it especially to women in their late 20s and early 30s.

[cordial-magpie]

Rory woke up in the middle of the night, decided that he wasnt comfortable enough so he moved A sleeping HUMAN BEING to the floor ?????

How fucking disgusting