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A review by scoodle42
Femme Like Her by Fiona Zedde
challenging
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Nailah and Scottie meet and the sparks fly. But then Scottie does a disappearing act, making Nailah wonder and finally, dismiss her. After a while, she pops up again. And Nailah can't help but want to trust her. But will she stick around this time?
Okay, the back and forth of the dating world was a great element to the story. I like the push and pull of these two. I also ended being really intrigued by Scottie's story, though I thought she took far too long to tell it. Nailah made my heart clench and then I was side eyeing her for jumping into mistrust after agreeing to try and get past everything. And then the break up felt a little clunky, as did the reunion. And the end felt abrupt. Everything got resolved, but nothing FELT resolved. So many parts of this felt cut off as soon as we were getting deep enough. Also, these two communicated horribly (and by horribly I mean not at all) and we don't get to see them work through that and I feel like it would have added a bit more weight to story arc to see some of that. It was okay.
Okay, the back and forth of the dating world was a great element to the story. I like the push and pull of these two. I also ended being really intrigued by Scottie's story, though I thought she took far too long to tell it. Nailah made my heart clench and then I was side eyeing her for jumping into mistrust after agreeing to try and get past everything. And then the break up felt a little clunky, as did the reunion. And the end felt abrupt. Everything got resolved, but nothing FELT resolved. So many parts of this felt cut off as soon as we were getting deep enough. Also, these two communicated horribly (and by horribly I mean not at all) and we don't get to see them work through that and I feel like it would have added a bit more weight to story arc to see some of that. It was okay.