ivyreadstoomuch 's review for:

Hail Mary by Kandi Steiner
2.0

A blatant "not like other girls" character written in 2023?? What the hell? I couldn't stand the way Mary was written. Oh, she doesn't like pink lip gloss, she only wears dark lipstick. Her male roommates think she's so cool because they've never met a girl who plays video games. Have these men ever TALKED to a woman?
Mary doesn't give a fuck about wearing boy short underwear around her male roommates, she's just too cool to care. I think there was a way to write an "alternative" heroine without making her like this. Just don't draw attention to it. Don't comment on how different she is from other girls. Leo didn't.