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When I was in school, my friends and I would write these role-playing stories, each taking turns to write what was going on for our characters, progressing the story, and throwing curve-balls at the others that they could respond to when their turn came.There seemed to be this unspoken battle in which each of us wanted to have the most damaged and special snowflake of all the characters, and of course we wanted all the boys to be madly in love with our own characters, to love them despite the damage… to want to save them and make everything better.
We would take turns writing the boy characters, too, and their every thought was always on the female characters who were our own embodiment of super special.
That’s what this book felt like. Something my friends and I wrote as teenagers, which was total wish-fulfillment, but did not make any sense, and would have left readers undoubtedly frustrated at how “amazing” all of the characters were. The hopping of character points of view reinforced this feeling, with no chapter running for more than about five pages before it switched to the other, leaving nothing about their interactions unexplored from both points of view.
“Oh, for fuck’s sake,” became my mantra while reading this book, and was one of the main reasons I was able to push through.
This is a story of instalove, and of so much assumption and stupidity.
The rest of this review can be found HERE!