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Love, Hate & Clickbait
by Liz Bowery
Awwww! What started out as two annoyingly dickish characters snarking at each other, turned into an adorably tender love story.
Thom is initially a caricature of a political operative- cold, calculating, heartless and excessively arrogant. Clay is exactly how you’d picture a Silicon Valley tech bro- smart but socially awkward, and makes up for it with goofy confidence. I’d say they’re a black cat/golden retriever couple but that doesn’t quite fit. Thom has this shell of independence, but desperately wants to feel like he belongs and matters somewhere. Clay quickly moves from cocky tech whiz to vulnerable romantic, but can’t quite let himself show it because of all the hurt he still carries from being burned.
The one thing that wasn’t my favorite was the nonchalant bi-awakening. I usually love the moments of realization and eye opening and conflicted emotions… this gave none of that. There was basically one sentence like, “oh so you’re bi-curious? Yeah, guess so, anyways,” and then we moved on. Then we got one mention of this being new to him, but he’s confident so it’s fine. No one questioned this, including the main characters. Bummer.
It gives a little whiplash with the shifts that happen, but the author plants the seeds of why really well. I really enjoyed this one, couldn’t put it down.
Thom is initially a caricature of a political operative- cold, calculating, heartless and excessively arrogant. Clay is exactly how you’d picture a Silicon Valley tech bro- smart but socially awkward, and makes up for it with goofy confidence. I’d say they’re a black cat/golden retriever couple but that doesn’t quite fit. Thom has this shell of independence, but desperately wants to feel like he belongs and matters somewhere. Clay quickly moves from cocky tech whiz to vulnerable romantic, but can’t quite let himself show it because of all the hurt he still carries from being burned.
The one thing that wasn’t my favorite was the nonchalant bi-awakening. I usually love the moments of realization and eye opening and conflicted emotions… this gave none of that. There was basically one sentence like, “oh so you’re bi-curious? Yeah, guess so, anyways,” and then we moved on. Then we got one mention of this being new to him, but he’s confident so it’s fine. No one questioned this, including the main characters. Bummer.
It gives a little whiplash with the shifts that happen, but the author plants the seeds of why really well. I really enjoyed this one, couldn’t put it down.