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Friday, August 21, 2020

Book Look: Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy

 

There's a lot of flourishy detail on the feelings of characters as they're kissing or touching, which is fine for the youth who may be closeted. But it feels like important things just ... happen with not a lot of fanfare. I'm not sure why this is happening here, or what is going on.


Some of it can be chalked up to my lack of knowledge of Arthurian Legend. Other times, it feels like I unintentionally skipped a paragraph just to go back and no, something is just happening and we're rolling with it. Then it just lingers so much and so long on a part where characters are separated and you really want them to reunite, it just feels like a waste.

8 A Quiet Place Day One

    It's carried by Lupita, because the narrative doesn't have the strongest punch to really get across its themes.