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A review by aliceallegedly
The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan
3.0
Got an arc from work
So skimming a lot of other reviews it seems like the things people had the most issues with were the messy relationship and the pacing. I didn’t mind the messy codependency as much as some people did, even if I was like “girly there’s so many things wrong here” and perhaps I didn’t notice the slow build up because I read most of this in the span of one slow day but I do feel like the ending was too abrupt. I wasn’t really sure what it was going for? At first I thought it was gonna be like that episode of SVU where the girl’s hypnotherapist convinces her she has false memories and winds her up to explode but that didn’t seem to have any follow through? A really shitty depiction of trauma/mental illness making someone act like that? Damn I hope that wasn’t supposed to be the takeaway. A commentary on how easily people get sucked into cults? Maybe but the ending was so abrupt that if that’s the case I feel like we should’ve had MORE. I’m not saying every book as to have a moral but I think I would’ve liked it to have more of a takeaway than “hey would that be fucked up or what?”
I enjoyed a lot of this, in a “oh you two are so messy this cannot end well I’m gonna get the popcorn and see what happens” sort of way, I just would’ve liked more of a conclusion
So skimming a lot of other reviews it seems like the things people had the most issues with were the messy relationship and the pacing. I didn’t mind the messy codependency as much as some people did, even if I was like “girly there’s so many things wrong here” and perhaps I didn’t notice the slow build up because I read most of this in the span of one slow day but I do feel like the ending was too abrupt. I wasn’t really sure what it was going for? At first I thought it was gonna be like that episode of SVU where the girl’s hypnotherapist convinces her she has false memories and winds her up to explode but that didn’t seem to have any follow through? A really shitty depiction of trauma/mental illness making someone act like that? Damn I hope that wasn’t supposed to be the takeaway. A commentary on how easily people get sucked into cults? Maybe but the ending was so abrupt that if that’s the case I feel like we should’ve had MORE. I’m not saying every book as to have a moral but I think I would’ve liked it to have more of a takeaway than “hey would that be fucked up or what?”
I enjoyed a lot of this, in a “oh you two are so messy this cannot end well I’m gonna get the popcorn and see what happens” sort of way, I just would’ve liked more of a conclusion