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A review by meredith_i
Adult Assembly Required by Abbi Waxman
3.0
2.5 ⭐
I LOVED The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, but this was soooo disappointing. In Bookish Life, the characters were fun, the social anxiety was totally relatable. This felt like the lowest stakes book ever. I kept falling asleep while listening to the audiobook. I kept going because I liked the main couple, even though they were ordinary. Let ordinary nice people have their day!
But all the "conflicts" were so manufactured, it got annoying, leading up to THE WORST Romantic Grand Gesture EVER. Please.
I also have driving anxiety. Not to the level of Laura's, but enough to know that someone who's only driven in a parking lot in LA since having a major accident will not successfully make their first trip to LAX and back while already in a highly emotional state.
Maggie, I now agree with your daughter: you are a terrible person. Don't tell someone with driving anxiety to drive to surprise somebody flying out of LAX (for one thing, no romantic gesture is worth having to go through security twice). If you can't talk this person out of going, at least 1) make sure they confirm with the traveler the airport, terminal, and time of departure, and 2) offer to drive them yourself or suggest they get a Lyft or Uber.
Also, I may have slept through this part, but where there any scenes where Laura actually did the thing she moved out to LA to do, i.e. go to grad school?
I LOVED The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, but this was soooo disappointing. In Bookish Life, the characters were fun, the social anxiety was totally relatable. This felt like the lowest stakes book ever. I kept falling asleep while listening to the audiobook. I kept going because I liked the main couple, even though they were ordinary. Let ordinary nice people have their day!
But all the "conflicts" were so manufactured, it got annoying, leading up to THE WORST Romantic Grand Gesture EVER. Please.
I also have driving anxiety. Not to the level of Laura's, but enough to know that someone who's only driven in a parking lot in LA since having a major accident will not successfully make their first trip to LAX and back while already in a highly emotional state.
Maggie, I now agree with your daughter: you are a terrible person. Don't tell someone with driving anxiety to drive to surprise somebody flying out of LAX (for one thing, no romantic gesture is worth having to go through security twice). If you can't talk this person out of going, at least 1) make sure they confirm with the traveler the airport, terminal, and time of departure, and 2) offer to drive them yourself or suggest they get a Lyft or Uber.
Also, I may have slept through this part, but where there any scenes where Laura actually did the thing she moved out to LA to do, i.e. go to grad school?