Boy likes girl. Boy is not so smart, girl is super-smart.
Boy asks gay sister to help. Sister and girl get along like a house on fire in
texts. Then girl meets girl.
It’s not an awfully original storyline, but not too long and
well written.
Sam works in a coffee shop and likes his colleague, Judi.
Judi is all sorts of great and Sam wants to ask her out. Though she’s given him
her number without reservations, he wants to impress her with his smarts (of which he has a very short supply) so he asks his sister, Elle, to text Judi. Judi and Elle have a whole
lot in common and their text chats are totally amazing for both of them. Except
that when Judi talks to Sam in person it is an entirely different experience
for her.
Elle is a librarian and has volunteered to be a part of the
organising committee for the first ever Pride festival in their town. In the
first meeting she is introduced to a super-cute girl and asks her out. The girl
lets her down gently confessing that she’s crushing on someone else. In the
second meeting for the festival, Elle realises she’s misheard the super-cute
girl’s name as Julie. Said girl is brother Sam’s Judi who went on one date with
him and is now totally out of him.
Inevitably, Elle and Judi start seeing each other and Elle never
finds the right moment to confess the past. Obviously, it cannot be hidden
forever nor can it end well.
This is the plot line of a romcom. There are plenty of
moments and situations that are also romcom. But the emotional weight in the
narrative makes it decidedly not a
romcom.
Judi was instantly likeable and just grew in her likeable
quotient. Elle started off likeable, veered into not-so-likeable (particularly
in the Valentine conversation besides the whole keeping important facts hidden
thing) and became likeable towards the end again.
This is an okay read, particularly because it is not too
long.
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