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emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Apparently this book started life under the title Lockdown on London Lane. Changing titles is a bugbear of mine, it's so unnecessary.
This author usually writes YA novels, and by God it shows. The characters seem to be in their late twenties, but they speak and act like 17 year olds. One is a lovesick video game nerd, another of the yoga, kale smoothie and gratitude journal ilk whose biggest worry about lockdown with her new beau is "he's going to be here when I poop". 💩
My biggest annoyance was how the author wasn't content with the realities of a national lockdown so she invented a 7 day lockdown in just one particular building, regardless of the fact that no managing agents have the right to physically lock you in (or out of) a building and force you to get food deliveries. If someone had tried to lock me in my building, I'd have called the police. If they react like that over ONE case at the beginning of the pandemic those residents can look forward to a year of quarantine once the shit really hits the fan! However, the real lockdowns allowed people out of their houses for various purposes and furloughed them from their jobs so people couldn't lose their jobs for simply not turning up! There was a hilarious statement on page 90: " Because he's a nurse, there's no way Zack could go into work." Are you for real? Those are exactly the people who had to go to work, especially if they didn't have COVID!
But apart from these clangers, the pandemic isn't really seen as a worrying situation, those people just moan about being stuck with (or without) people they didn't intend to, because what if they see them without makeup? 🙄
Honestly, this was such inconsequential fluff that I didn't care about any of them, especially when they manufactured an existential crisis out of the fact that one boyfriend ordered a pizza with pineapple on it, which of course meant he probably didn't want kids or something.
Also, please check your spelling - it's fazed not phased, and the past tense of text is texted. And why do we get the American "gotten"?
This author usually writes YA novels, and by God it shows. The characters seem to be in their late twenties, but they speak and act like 17 year olds. One is a lovesick video game nerd, another of the yoga, kale smoothie and gratitude journal ilk whose biggest worry about lockdown with her new beau is "he's going to be here when I poop". 💩
My biggest annoyance was how the author wasn't content with the realities of a national lockdown so she invented a 7 day lockdown in just one particular building, regardless of the fact that no managing agents have the right to physically lock you in (or out of) a building and force you to get food deliveries. If someone had tried to lock me in my building, I'd have called the police. If they react like that over ONE case at the beginning of the pandemic those residents can look forward to a year of quarantine once the shit really hits the fan! However, the real lockdowns allowed people out of their houses for various purposes and furloughed them from their jobs so people couldn't lose their jobs for simply not turning up! There was a hilarious statement on page 90: " Because he's a nurse, there's no way Zack could go into work." Are you for real? Those are exactly the people who had to go to work, especially if they didn't have COVID!
But apart from these clangers, the pandemic isn't really seen as a worrying situation, those people just moan about being stuck with (or without) people they didn't intend to, because what if they see them without makeup? 🙄
Honestly, this was such inconsequential fluff that I didn't care about any of them, especially when they manufactured an existential crisis out of the fact that one boyfriend ordered a pizza with pineapple on it, which of course meant he probably didn't want kids or something.
Also, please check your spelling - it's fazed not phased, and the past tense of text is texted. And why do we get the American "gotten"?
Content Warnings
Moderate: Confinement and Pandemic/Epidemic
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