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In Which Margo Halifax Earns Her Shocking Reputation by Alexandra Vasti
1 review
annick's review
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
2.25
After so much high praise from other reviewers, I was bored with this one. I most enjoyed Margo’s declaration in the final third:
“I think you’ve invented this lie about how you are so far below me to cover up the truth.”
His mouth felt dry. “And the truth is?”
“That you didn’t trust me.”
“I—” He wasn’t sure how to answer that. “Of course I trust you.”
“You don’t,” she said. “You don’t trust me to make a fair judgment of you. You invented a whole story in your mind and never gave me the chance to make my opinion heard. You never gave me the opportunity to know my mind, to have some say over what happened between us. If I had not forced the issue on this trip, we would still be dancing out of each other’s reach. We would never—”
“I think you’ve invented this lie about how you are so far below me to cover up the truth.”
His mouth felt dry. “And the truth is?”
“That you didn’t trust me.”
“I—” He wasn’t sure how to answer that. “Of course I trust you.”
“You don’t,” she said. “You don’t trust me to make a fair judgment of you. You invented a whole story in your mind and never gave me the chance to make my opinion heard. You never gave me the opportunity to know my mind, to have some say over what happened between us. If I had not forced the issue on this trip, we would still be dancing out of each other’s reach. We would never—”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Sexual assault
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