A review by vagaybond
Magical Meet Cute by Jean Meltzer

I struggle with this because Jean Meltzer is a zionist, and the way cops are written about (despite being extremely mildly critical) still feels like copaganda with a few-bad-apples rhetoric. and there is a scene where she specifically says that calling people defending the zionist entity genocidal is antisemitic or based in ignorance. there are throwaway comments mentioning the zionist entity in other books of Meltzer's but this one mentions the term genocide in a context which implies the author is a genocide denier. I'm also assuming my comments on this don't mean anything to the author, judging by my experiences navigating these kinds of conversations.

this taints the book a lot for me. it's one of Meltzer's best written books that I've read, with a story which transcends the romance plotline alone. I very much saw the 'twist' coming but I think maybe someone who is more of a bootlicker might have not. like all other books by this author I've read, the protagonist is a disabled Jewish woman, and I think there are peripheral queer characters. I think the magical plotline is interesting and I like that it's left open to the reader whether there's something truly magical going on or not. there are a lot of extreme coincidences.

I also find the unite against hate rally that they do where they have a cop speak at it so ridiculous but it makes sense for people who have otherwise not done anything particularly radical. I finished this book like a week ago so I can't remember if it was this one or a different book that said they got a "permit" to protest. but if it was this book: lol
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