Saturday, December 31, 2022

Never Ever Getting Back Together (by Sophie Gonzales)

A nice, fun holiday read with great bisexual representation and a slight genre problem.  The premise is that Sophie and Maya go on a Bachelor-like game show where women are competing to win the affections of the bachelor, who in this case is their ex-boyfriend, but begin to fall for each other instead.  

This premise would work perfectly with people in their mid-20s, but the characters are like 19? They handwave the alcohol thing as "the drinking age in this small European country is 18" which is fine I guess, but how has this dude accrued this giant list of "exes" when he's barely 20? How are the relationship histories serious enough to warrant all this drama?

And the villain gets his comeuppance at the end, which is satisfying I guess, but not when he's basically still a kid. Maybe this is just me being An Old. Anyway, I solved this by mentally aging all the characters up to 25 years old, and then I really enjoyed it!

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