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A review by inkstndfngrs
Gena/Finn by Hannah Moskowitz, Kat Helgeson
3.0
So, allow me a moment of reflection. I used to be a fangirl. Not as entrenched as these ladies and their internet friends, but I wasn't uninvolved. I wrote a lot of fan fiction (NSYNC before it was no longer cool to write stories featuring real actual people, and later Harry Potter). It's books like this that remind me why I got out of Fandom and moved on to writing original fiction. Fandom can $&@! up people's lives if they let it.
But the book. What to say? It was...fine. I'm not really sure about the appeal of a cop drama to teen girls other than the young and attractive police officers. I liked Finn; she seemed very grounded. I always enjoy a good alternative narrative. But it does make me wonder how the story could have been different if it had been told more traditionally.
I can't say that I found myself actually LIKING these characters (except Charlie, maybe). I may be a few years older than them, but there was more than once I wanted to give them a swift kick in the rear and tell them to grow the hell up. Also lost in the narrative choice was: did something actually end up happening between them? Finn says she wants to marry Charlie and Gena obviously had some kind of relationship with Alanah previously. It's just frustrating that even when you're with people you're supposed to be able to be yourself with -and a story told from their paper trail, we still don't get any real closure.
The end was...lackluster. So TylerGirl93 never changes. lol. What a waste of a morning ('cause that was its one solid good point --it literally only took me 3 hours to read).
But the book. What to say? It was...fine. I'm not really sure about the appeal of a cop drama to teen girls other than the young and attractive police officers. I liked Finn; she seemed very grounded. I always enjoy a good alternative narrative. But it does make me wonder how the story could have been different if it had been told more traditionally.
I can't say that I found myself actually LIKING these characters (except Charlie, maybe). I may be a few years older than them, but there was more than once I wanted to give them a swift kick in the rear and tell them to grow the hell up. Also lost in the narrative choice was: did something actually end up happening between them? Finn says she wants to marry Charlie and Gena obviously had some kind of relationship with Alanah previously. It's just frustrating that even when you're with people you're supposed to be able to be yourself with -and a story told from their paper trail, we still don't get any real closure.
The end was...lackluster. So TylerGirl93 never changes. lol. What a waste of a morning ('cause that was its one solid good point --it literally only took me 3 hours to read).