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A review by librarygxrl
We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman
2.0
I really enjoyed the prose of this story. The writing was undeniably gorgeous and illustrative. I feel that most everything else fell short.
The general themes and message behind the story were interesting and I think they played out well for the first half of the story. I feel that the message kind of got lost after that in favor of incident-after-incident of characters being depressed and somehow clumsily relating it back to the struggles of women as a whole.
A couple of side characters were the only likable people in the story. Cass and Caroline were both terrible people and Cass constantly made mistakes I couldn't begin to understand. I thought there would be more resolve for the original scandal that landed her in LA to begin with, but this turned out to be an underwhelming incident and didn't seem like something she should have thrown her career away over. The ending felt disjointed from the entirely of the plot. Hate to bash on a new release like this, but the story progressed clumsily.
The general themes and message behind the story were interesting and I think they played out well for the first half of the story. I feel that the message kind of got lost after that in favor of incident-after-incident of characters being depressed and somehow clumsily relating it back to the struggles of women as a whole.
A couple of side characters were the only likable people in the story. Cass and Caroline were both terrible people and Cass constantly made mistakes I couldn't begin to understand. I thought there would be more resolve for the original scandal that landed her in LA to begin with, but this turned out to be an underwhelming incident and didn't seem like something she should have thrown her career away over. The ending felt disjointed from the entirely of the plot. Hate to bash on a new release like this, but the story progressed clumsily.