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A review by lindick
Friendship by Emily Gould
4.0
Definitely not perfect, but I'm so hungry for books that are about friendship at their hearts (instead of nominally about friendship but really about romance etc), and it did so many things right, that I mostly loved it.
The plot wasn't about what I thought it was going to be about, and the token fight between the friends seemed weirdly both to come from nowhere and also to be too serious to overcome (like maybe it revealed some fundamental deep-seeded problems in the friendship that couldn't be fixed? But I guess that's a difficult line to gauge, and it happens in rom-coms etc too, in the "must create a problem now for drama/plot reasons" part of the story), but I ended up not minding that as much as I thought I would. Also, I totally cried at the end. Bottom line, I want more books like this. I guess people are tired of media about girls being broke and in shambles and confused in their 20s in New York City but I'm not over that yet and might not be for quite a while.
The plot wasn't about what I thought it was going to be about, and the token fight between the friends seemed weirdly both to come from nowhere and also to be too serious to overcome (like maybe it revealed some fundamental deep-seeded problems in the friendship that couldn't be fixed? But I guess that's a difficult line to gauge, and it happens in rom-coms etc too, in the "must create a problem now for drama/plot reasons" part of the story), but I ended up not minding that as much as I thought I would. Also, I totally cried at the end. Bottom line, I want more books like this. I guess people are tired of media about girls being broke and in shambles and confused in their 20s in New York City but I'm not over that yet and might not be for quite a while.