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We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman
3.0

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Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I am not the biggest fan of contemporary books. This is usually something I can get past for a book marketed as a queer book, but this particular story made it difficult. It felt as though we were not moving towards anything throughout the entire book. Cass continually runs away from her problems while creating more for herself. This story felt as though it was marketed to be more of a contemporary-thriller based on the given summary. This is not at all what the book is. Cass is given opportunity after opportunity, with privilege literally handed to her, and she continues to sabotage herself. She blamed success itself for turning herself into a bad person when, in reality, she was already that person.
The writing of this book was solid. The intrigue of wanting to know what happened to BB and why Cass was running from NYC were the only things the kept me reading.