melanierae 's review for:

Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar by Katie Yee

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Really enjoyed, would definitely read more from the author. A few nitpicks - some themes and even sentences got to feel very repetitive, and I think there was a lack of depth in emotion, I was wanting anger, or any sort of visceral feeling. And I didn’t at all get

the meeting, it felt like it was there purely to happen, to be on page, and it was so much nothing? I don’t think they needed to meet  until literally just before she was going to meet the kids. Absolutely no need for her to be friendly with Maggie just to presumably soothe Sam’s guilty conscious??