bog_librarian 's review for:

Make Me a Mixtape by Jennifer Whiteford

3.0

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I think this started out strong with a lot of promise and then devolved into something a little bit frustrating. I liked it but the miscommunication killed it for me. Like come on, we can not think that these grown ass people should have such poor communication that one of them is laying around crying for days while the other is off making a grand gesture, all because he rushed into his plan and didn’t stop to communicate first so she has no idea he even cares about her, lol. I won’t give too big of spoilers but that situation was highly questionable. It sort of felt lazy because WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE JUST LEFT…TO GO DO SOMETHING NICE?????? That part, as well as the whole intern date thing made no sense. There were less out of the blue ways to convey his abandonment issues than making this guy who’s like severely down bad for this woman go out with someone else, lol. You can get away with this in YA bc teenagers are dumb and they learn from miscommunication but you cannot get away with it with a bunch characters in their mid-thirties without them coming off extremely unlikeable. Sure, people really do act like that…but…I don’t like them, lmao.  Otherwise, I thought it was entertaining enough. I enjoyed the autumnal and holiday vibes.