Rae’s Reviews > Fake Skating > Status Update

no one is angry enough and there are no stakes and every conflict is resolved immediately. its almost subversive in how blasé it is

maybe if we spent more than 1 page in total developing dani's characterization before now, I would understand her thought process BEFORE she makes the decisions she does and don't have to rely on single throwaway lines doing damage control

it's incredibly funny to me that despite lying all book about every little inconsequential thing, she suddenly forgets that lying her way out of this is a option. this is so stupid. this is beyond stupid. i'm losing sleep over how stupid this is, surely in this decade we can think of other third act breakup plots

this does sometimes feel like a second draft of a book that lynn painter had no emotional attachment to and will forget writing in five years

not a single reasonable adult in this whole book what are we doing

wait. wait wait pause am i crazy or is this dynamic actually incredibly intriguing