A review by skatercat
The Long Distance Playlist by Tara Eglington

DNF. I wanted to like this so much but there are too many things I struggled with that I ended up giving up. It’s way too long, and the constant switching between IM, email, Skype and first person POV is distracting and makes the story difficult to follow. The emails and IM’s are also longwinded and kind of pointless. They are also grammatically correct and fully punctuated which is not an authentic representation of how teens communicate. The music playlists are full of cringeworthy pop ballads and read like they belong to Taylor’s mum rather than a teenage snowboarder. After the first playlist I thought it couldn’t get any worse, but then I read the second one, and the third...