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nenya_kanadka's review
5.0
Okay, I LOVED Cricket. She's so full of life at, what was it, 98? I loved the contrasts between her and the other girls, and how age both was and wasn't a factor (they can have whatever bodies they want, but a century of experience is going to be different than twenty or forty or fifty years). Loved her granddaughter, and her cover story for going off to join Team Slut, and how each character ends up approaching the succubus thing just a little bit differently.
Amanda had been something of a cipher to me in the series to date, and I think that was intentional, given what we find out about her in this. She's sort of been a cipher to herself. Never had a real chance to explore who she is and what she wants. All she knows is she likes team sports.
I loved the slow-burn f/f romance in this. Love. It was so subtle at first that I was sure I must be reading something into the book that wasn't there because I'm a queer woman myself and am always alert for f/f possibilities. But then these little things kept happening, and I started to very cautiously get my hopes up. And what do you know, it actually is canon femslash. Really lovely and satisfying, too, at least for me.
I think this is the one where we start learning more about Delilah, too? I always knew something was up with that woman.
And the puppies were CUTE. AS. FUCK.
Amanda had been something of a cipher to me in the series to date, and I think that was intentional, given what we find out about her in this. She's sort of been a cipher to herself. Never had a real chance to explore who she is and what she wants. All she knows is she likes team sports.
I loved the slow-burn f/f romance in this. Love. It was so subtle at first that I was sure I must be reading something into the book that wasn't there because I'm a queer woman myself and am always alert for f/f possibilities. But then these little things kept happening, and I started to very cautiously get my hopes up. And what do you know, it actually is canon femslash. Really lovely and satisfying, too, at least for me.
I think this is the one where we start learning more about Delilah, too? I always knew something was up with that woman.
And the puppies were CUTE. AS. FUCK.
mdpenguin's review
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
5.0
I hadn't read the rest of the series and could tell that there was more of a backstory that I didn't have but I don't think it really mattered. This book is great fun and I think that I might want to be Cricket when I grow up. Even though this is a light, fun book, the characters are all very well defined and believable and their personalities more or less make sense with who they are and where they come from. I think that you can tell that Stevenson has a background in counseling because the psychological issues are so well detailed and make sense with the characters' back stories, and the things that they do to deal with them don't fall back on pop-psych cliches even where they easily could have. I probably would peek in on this series every once in a while when I was feeling like I needed a bright pick-me-up, but I found that the publisher is giving away the first book for free so I might continue with it a little longer.
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