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Forever by Kris Bryant
2.0
Disclaimer: I've never been one to watch reality TV shows about dating, but I've consumed quite a number of harem anime and manga years ago. Given that, I felt like there were simply too many women on too few pages for me to feel a connection with any of them - even the potential winners (and the actual one).
Savannah felt like a villain, which I have zero qualms with. However, I wanted her journey to feel more agonizing, and I was fully expecting her to, at one point, look in the mirror and see a deeper parallel to her previous experience as someone on the other side of the show.
Unfortunately, the internal turmoil in Savannah was overshadowed by how convenient the systematical takedown of every competitor to the eventual winner was made for her. She was given fortunate outs to eliminate practically everyone - even the frontrunner. I was hoping for that specific decision to be more excruciating, not just for Savannah to make, but also for me to read about. It was difficult for me to empathize with her.
I also want to bring attention the difficulty I had following the dialogue at some points. Some lines were delivered in the middle or end of paragraphs of significant length, and the lack of markers like "I said" or "X said" had me backtracking to the previous paragraphs to confirm who had just spoken. Some of these paragraphs were also about Savannah narrating an interaction with the other character, which added to the confusion. Definitely detracted from the reading experience.
Savannah felt like a villain, which I have zero qualms with. However, I wanted her journey to feel more agonizing, and I was fully expecting her to, at one point, look in the mirror and see a deeper parallel to her previous experience as someone on the other side of the show.
Unfortunately, the internal turmoil in Savannah was overshadowed by how convenient the systematical takedown of every competitor to the eventual winner was made for her. She was given fortunate outs to eliminate practically everyone - even the frontrunner. I was hoping for that specific decision to be more excruciating, not just for Savannah to make, but also for me to read about. It was difficult for me to empathize with her.
I also want to bring attention the difficulty I had following the dialogue at some points. Some lines were delivered in the middle or end of paragraphs of significant length, and the lack of markers like "I said" or "X said" had me backtracking to the previous paragraphs to confirm who had just spoken. Some of these paragraphs were also about Savannah narrating an interaction with the other character, which added to the confusion. Definitely detracted from the reading experience.