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A review by kriseaf
Delay of Game by Ari Baran
3.0
3-, it was mostly great with one giant, frustrating downfall.
The book was fantastic up until 70-90% when our two MCs refused to talk to each other and that was the entire third-act conflict. Two adult men refusing to talk. Two best friends ignoring each other. Literally, that was it. No other conflict at all. Awful.
It would have been great to get that road bump out of the way in, say, 10 pages and then have our main couple conquer something TOGETHER in the last third, but instead it was a long, drawn-out, childish miscommunication. Not even miscommunication, really, but just lack-of-communication.
The epilogue went a long way towards improving that final, lasting impression.The Twitter-style Cup updates was really cute and heart-felt and the last line about Zack-and-Nate being maybe public about their relationship was a lot of fun.
The book was fantastic up until 70-90% when our two MCs refused to talk to each other and that was the entire third-act conflict. Two adult men refusing to talk. Two best friends ignoring each other. Literally, that was it. No other conflict at all. Awful.
It would have been great to get that road bump out of the way in, say, 10 pages and then have our main couple conquer something TOGETHER in the last third, but instead it was a long, drawn-out, childish miscommunication. Not even miscommunication, really, but just lack-of-communication.
The epilogue went a long way towards improving that final, lasting impression.