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A review by impybelle
Elite by Mercedes Lackey
3.0
This is more of a 3.5, possibly come back and give it four stars kind of book. I read it pretty quickly and mostly enjoyed it, but I was thrown by the Jessie bit.
I wanted Joy to expect Jessie to hate her or be jealous of her only to have it turn out that nah, Jessie wasn't like that. I didn't mind Joy being right about Jessie needing to find a purpose in the city because it made sense and made the story better, but Joy being right about Jessie being a totally typical Christer girl who didn't believe men and women could be just friends didn't really add anything to the story other than Joy got to be right about nearly everything again. She still could have avoided Mark due to that whole him being newly married and not wanting to intrude on that without the added bit of Jessie's jealousy. Really. And for a brief second when we first met Jessie it seemed possible... only then no. No, of course not.
It's a little thing but it bugged me.
I wanted Joy to expect Jessie to hate her or be jealous of her only to have it turn out that nah, Jessie wasn't like that. I didn't mind Joy being right about Jessie needing to find a purpose in the city because it made sense and made the story better, but Joy being right about Jessie being a totally typical Christer girl who didn't believe men and women could be just friends didn't really add anything to the story other than Joy got to be right about nearly everything again. She still could have avoided Mark due to that whole him being newly married and not wanting to intrude on that without the added bit of Jessie's jealousy. Really. And for a brief second when we first met Jessie it seemed possible... only then no. No, of course not.
It's a little thing but it bugged me.