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lunaseassecondaccount's review
2.0
I tried to like this book, I really did. When I started it, it felt a little rushed. Peg quickly fell head over heels for her roommate, Julie, but the superficiality of their relationship reminded me just why I find it difficult to find a good novel in the GLBT genre.
The girls relationship quickly moves into the U-Haul kind. Peg says early on that she doesn't want to be chained to someone, but that's just what happens. The girls rarely seem to enjoy each others company, and they both end up cheating on one another with two male friends. There is little explanation why, and although it's mentioned again, repeatedly, they make little progression.
The characters in the novel are highly unsympathetic. Julie is the one I found myself detesting the most. She takes no responsibility for her actions, and although she claims to love Peg, she refers to her as an experiment and repeatedly hurts Peg (who continues to let herself get hurt). She makes outrageous demands and expects Peg to follow her at her every whim.
Despite being in their mid-thirties at the end of the book, they both still act like the younger selves having just started to live together. Issues are solved unrealistically quickly, and the lesser major characters act and react more like cardboard cutouts. Timing is a major problem in this book, and it progresses in a rushed manner, as though the author wasn't sure how to move from one idea to the next.
Overall, the book started well, and there were good passages, but it reads like the author didn't know where to go with her ideas and has little experience with long distance or unhealthy relationships.
The girls relationship quickly moves into the U-Haul kind. Peg says early on that she doesn't want to be chained to someone, but that's just what happens. The girls rarely seem to enjoy each others company, and they both end up cheating on one another with two male friends. There is little explanation why, and although it's mentioned again, repeatedly, they make little progression.
The characters in the novel are highly unsympathetic. Julie is the one I found myself detesting the most. She takes no responsibility for her actions, and although she claims to love Peg, she refers to her as an experiment and repeatedly hurts Peg (who continues to let herself get hurt). She makes outrageous demands and expects Peg to follow her at her every whim.
Despite being in their mid-thirties at the end of the book, they both still act like the younger selves having just started to live together. Issues are solved unrealistically quickly, and the lesser major characters act and react more like cardboard cutouts. Timing is a major problem in this book, and it progresses in a rushed manner, as though the author wasn't sure how to move from one idea to the next.
Overall, the book started well, and there were good passages, but it reads like the author didn't know where to go with her ideas and has little experience with long distance or unhealthy relationships.
inthelunaseas's review
2.0
I tried to like this book, I really did. When I started it, it felt a little rushed. Peg quickly fell head over heels for her roommate, Julie, but the superficiality of their relationship reminded me just why I find it difficult to find a good novel in the GLBT genre.
The girls relationship quickly moves into the U-Haul kind. Peg says early on that she doesn't want to be chained to someone, but that's just what happens. The girls rarely seem to enjoy each others company, and they both end up cheating on one another with two male friends. There is little explanation why, and although it's mentioned again, repeatedly, they make little progression.
The characters in the novel are highly unsympathetic. Julie is the one I found myself detesting the most. She takes no responsibility for her actions, and although she claims to love Peg, she refers to her as an experiment and repeatedly hurts Peg (who continues to let herself get hurt). She makes outrageous demands and expects Peg to follow her at her every whim.
Despite being in their mid-thirties at the end of the book, they both still act like the younger selves having just started to live together. Issues are solved unrealistically quickly, and the lesser major characters act and react more like cardboard cutouts. Timing is a major problem in this book, and it progresses in a rushed manner, as though the author wasn't sure how to move from one idea to the next.
Overall, the book started well, and there were good passages, but it reads like the author didn't know where to go with her ideas and has little experience with long distance or unhealthy relationships.
The girls relationship quickly moves into the U-Haul kind. Peg says early on that she doesn't want to be chained to someone, but that's just what happens. The girls rarely seem to enjoy each others company, and they both end up cheating on one another with two male friends. There is little explanation why, and although it's mentioned again, repeatedly, they make little progression.
The characters in the novel are highly unsympathetic. Julie is the one I found myself detesting the most. She takes no responsibility for her actions, and although she claims to love Peg, she refers to her as an experiment and repeatedly hurts Peg (who continues to let herself get hurt). She makes outrageous demands and expects Peg to follow her at her every whim.
Despite being in their mid-thirties at the end of the book, they both still act like the younger selves having just started to live together. Issues are solved unrealistically quickly, and the lesser major characters act and react more like cardboard cutouts. Timing is a major problem in this book, and it progresses in a rushed manner, as though the author wasn't sure how to move from one idea to the next.
Overall, the book started well, and there were good passages, but it reads like the author didn't know where to go with her ideas and has little experience with long distance or unhealthy relationships.
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