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abbywdan 's review for:
Silver Girl
by Elin Hilderbrand
You know who is great at writing books? Elin Flippin’ Hilderbrand. Here is an example of why:
Over the summer, I read Such a Fun Age, which is great. But so much of the plot was about how the boyfriend had wronged the white mom in high school, and I just couldn’t buy it. I was like why is this bitch so traumatized by this very normal high school boyfriend problem of missed communication and leaked note and whatever. And why, when she tells her adult girlfriends about it, are they all like up in arms and hell no? Because if someone told me that today about their high school boyfriend, I’d be like wow, rough, but uh... this is 20 years later? Yes? Fine to dislike him but like... have we not let that go?
When it became clear in Silver Girl that the Toby story was going to be more relevant than just part of Connie and Meredith’s high school beginnings, I was like uh oh, not the Such a Fun Age problem again, where I am expected to believe this 50-year-old is still devastated by her high school boyfriend. But Elin! Is so good at her job! That she SOLD IT. I believed that Toby being 19 and inconsiderate was that devastating to Meredith, layered in with her father’s death, paired with it, moving her to Freddie. I get it. I buy it. I loved this book.
Over the summer, I read Such a Fun Age, which is great. But so much of the plot was about how the boyfriend had wronged the white mom in high school, and I just couldn’t buy it. I was like why is this bitch so traumatized by this very normal high school boyfriend problem of missed communication and leaked note and whatever. And why, when she tells her adult girlfriends about it, are they all like up in arms and hell no? Because if someone told me that today about their high school boyfriend, I’d be like wow, rough, but uh... this is 20 years later? Yes? Fine to dislike him but like... have we not let that go?
When it became clear in Silver Girl that the Toby story was going to be more relevant than just part of Connie and Meredith’s high school beginnings, I was like uh oh, not the Such a Fun Age problem again, where I am expected to believe this 50-year-old is still devastated by her high school boyfriend. But Elin! Is so good at her job! That she SOLD IT. I believed that Toby being 19 and inconsiderate was that devastating to Meredith, layered in with her father’s death, paired with it, moving her to Freddie. I get it. I buy it. I loved this book.