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The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
3.0

3.5. i actually ended up liking this more than i expected. the last 30% was really good to me and maybe i’m just slow, but i finally started to understand and sympathize with rachel. i know the beginning 70% she was just a young girl trying to bridge the gap between childhood and adulthood, but a lot of her decisions were flawed. i find that her more serious decisions, no matter how right or wrong, made me more invested in her as a character. even the other side characters i found endearing, especially the initially misunderstood carey. james was … okay. i wasn’t drawn into his allure like rachel was. deenie was constantly on the short end of the stick but i liked how her story ended. big fu to dr. fred byrne