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A review by lesliejane
Finding Gene Kelly by Torie Jean
3.0
3.5 ⭐
Overall, it was a fun book with a good mixture of funny, sweet and emotional moments. Evie was a sympathetic, yet strong and smart lead, and her teasing, childhood nemesis, Liam, turned out to be such a cinnamon roll.
But there were some awkward sections where I needed to reread a paragraph or two to understand what was going on. I also felt like a lot of the conflicts were surface level. Characters who were jerks don't get told off (looking at you Harmony and Caroline). I would have loved to have read either Evie or Liam really lay into them before the end. I didn't like Caroline's note. She was a toxic mother and needed to be yelled at. Liam as a photographer just sorta shows up out of nowhere. It would have been nice to have had some background on that as well. Maybe he took lots of photos growing up? And my final complaint is the sex. I learned a lot about Endo from the book, and it would have been nice (especially since they talk about sex and expectations) to have some closure with that. Maybe there are positions or oral or some other way they find intimacy. Or not being up sex at all. And she needed to talk to him about Kylie more than just a passing comment.
Overall, it was a fun book with a good mixture of funny, sweet and emotional moments. Evie was a sympathetic, yet strong and smart lead, and her teasing, childhood nemesis, Liam, turned out to be such a cinnamon roll.
But there were some awkward sections where I needed to reread a paragraph or two to understand what was going on. I also felt like a lot of the conflicts were surface level. Characters who were jerks don't get told off (looking at you Harmony and Caroline). I would have loved to have read either Evie or Liam really lay into them before the end. I didn't like Caroline's note. She was a toxic mother and needed to be yelled at. Liam as a photographer just sorta shows up out of nowhere. It would have been nice to have had some background on that as well. Maybe he took lots of photos growing up? And my final complaint is the sex. I learned a lot about Endo from the book, and it would have been nice (especially since they talk about sex and expectations) to have some closure with that. Maybe there are positions or oral or some other way they find intimacy. Or not being up sex at all. And she needed to talk to him about Kylie more than just a passing comment.