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lauracadcock 's review for:
The View Was Exhausting
by Mikaella Clements, Onjuli Datta
The View Was Exhausting was excellent! It was an ignore my children, leave the house messy, stay up way too late kind of book! AKA the best kind of book! All I knew going into this was that it was a Hollywood love story with a fake dating trope. It ended up being such a wonderful novel full of love and hard issues and risks and finding out what is really most important in life.
Win is so complex. She is trying to keep up and be everything that everyone wants while also navigating the role of being a woman of color in an industry that is very harsh. It's exhausting but she's got her pal Leo to help her out when things go awry. He seems like a male version of Paris Hilton. He's wealthy and has few obligations but is always there when Win calls. He's extremely loyal to Win but challenges her in the best ways. Then comes Saint-Tropez where things explode and their friendship/love is put to the test.
I particularly loved how we got Win's perspective during the opening section of the book, flipped to Leo's for the middle and then back to Win for the last act. It allowed me to see their motives and insecurities and kept the book moving along at a great pace.
I just couldn't have loved this book more. It had so much emotion, angst, longing, and depth. I adored it and can't wait to see what this duo comes up with next.
Win is so complex. She is trying to keep up and be everything that everyone wants while also navigating the role of being a woman of color in an industry that is very harsh. It's exhausting but she's got her pal Leo to help her out when things go awry. He seems like a male version of Paris Hilton. He's wealthy and has few obligations but is always there when Win calls. He's extremely loyal to Win but challenges her in the best ways. Then comes Saint-Tropez where things explode and their friendship/love is put to the test.
I particularly loved how we got Win's perspective during the opening section of the book, flipped to Leo's for the middle and then back to Win for the last act. It allowed me to see their motives and insecurities and kept the book moving along at a great pace.
I just couldn't have loved this book more. It had so much emotion, angst, longing, and depth. I adored it and can't wait to see what this duo comes up with next.