galacticvampire's Reviews (366)

"Make them pay you what they would pay a white man"
Evelyn is one of the few protagonists I've seen that is unashamedly flawed. The author doesn't try to make her a hero, nor justify her acts. She feels like real human being, a relatability hard to achieve when talking about a movie star.
That being said, I was only moderately entertained by the actual story: not enough for a five-star rating.

Nothing happens until at least 50% in and every single side-character is more interesting than August.
The moments where the full-cast actually interacted, like in the parties, show the potential this had to be more involving and fun; but they were too far in between to make up for the repetitiveness of August and Jane "case solving" (pages and pages of the first dropping every single important thing in her life to annotate on the other's food preferences)

Some issues I had included: the fingering scene in a PACKED subway was completely unnecessary and is treated as something totally normal?
August completely drops out of her life for months but is apparently a super genius who graduates quicker than she expected. On that topic, she worries about her student debt at least 5 times throughout the book but suddenly in the end she's almost done with it?
That scene where August says that "most people aren't like that anymore!!" about the racist-homophobic comment.... Felt really tone deaf and was never addressed again.

Cool background story, but not very innovative.

This made me like Bail way less (not really an example parent compared to Breha, was he?) and Holdo way more!