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Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here
by Anna Breslaw
I don’t know. This had a lot of fun ingredients, but the soup didn’t stir together quite right.
The thing with the dad felt abrupt and disconnected from the rest of the story. The story-within-the-story took some big jumps that I had a hard time connecting… almost like some of it had been cut out but we were still referencing those things. Also, when real-life people found out about story the reaction was vague and short-lived. The online friends didn’t impact the plot in any consequential way.
It just felt disconnected. Anything not great that happened to Scarlett was just an opening for her to be angry and rude… but she didn’t actually learn from it. Her dad’s story and hers were shockingly similar situations, but she never makes that connection, and judges him harshly.
Just… I guess needed more connectors to ties everything together. Otherwise this feels like a messy early draft.
The thing with the dad felt abrupt and disconnected from the rest of the story. The story-within-the-story took some big jumps that I had a hard time connecting… almost like some of it had been cut out but we were still referencing those things. Also, when real-life people found out about story the reaction was vague and short-lived. The online friends didn’t impact the plot in any consequential way.
It just felt disconnected. Anything not great that happened to Scarlett was just an opening for her to be angry and rude… but she didn’t actually learn from it. Her dad’s story and hers were shockingly similar situations, but she never makes that connection, and judges him harshly.
Just… I guess needed more connectors to ties everything together. Otherwise this feels like a messy early draft.