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00emily00 's review for:
Things Will Calm Down Soon
by Zoe Foster Blake
It was written in an engaging and digestible style. The characters were very one-note and I found it difficult to connect to them. There were several moments when the author's privilege showed- it's not necessarily a bad thing, but we were "told" that the characters were poor growing up yet were "shown" what certainly felt like a wealthy lifestyle. I struggle to imagine that a character who, apparently, hoards money and lives very frugally, would attend regular pilates classes, for example. A lot of the book felt like it had no plot- I understood that we were following a business, but it never felt like it was leading anywhere. I understand how people could dislike the extreme business jargon- I didn't mind it, but there were definitely moments that it felt awkward and unnecessary. The time skips were frustrating, as we seemed to jump right over important plot points. For example, Kit went from feeling awkward and out of place in meetings, immediately to being an old hat and comfortable in them- that is exactly the sort of development I want to see, not be told about! We spent ages discussing how the best friend's children were being bullied, but never returned to that plot point later. With all that being said, I LOVED how romance was treated in this book- it was so refreshing to have it not be the focus.