A review by shelbyrclemons
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

2.0

This one was…weird. So much tension built up, so little payoff. The writing is incredibly cringy at times (horny octopuses?! Lick him like a lollipop??). The premise could have been interesting had it not been for 10 years of built-up tension…all because of a handful of days spent between strangers with a very shaky and unrealistic “love” story. The more I read and realized “THAT weekend” was just a time something kind of almost happened (that left them thinking about each other the next decade??), the less interested I became. Not to mention, Chani doesn’t seem like a very professional or good writer. Questionable professional boundary-crossing aside, she has no food questions prepared for her interview, doesn’t have great writing and overall is just boring and flat as a character. This seriously read like corny fanfiction teenage girls write about their celebrity crush.