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A review by judyylino
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
2.5
I was really hooked when I read the synopsis at first and my expectations were really high, however I disappointed.
Such a fun read is a story involves three characters mainly, and we see the point of view of two. which are Emira, the babysitter and Alix her very rich and privileged white employee. The third character is Kelly, your athlete white dude who is "so tall", and I included him because I feel he had a great influence on the story.
Kelly and Alix are both really odd individuals who were doing THE most just to avoid being called racist and be seen as "cool and progressive". They definitely have a lot of issues to work on. Alix was borderline obsessed with Emira but both wanted to be her "savior" so bad I was cringing for most of the story. My girl Emira deserved so much better than that. I suppose the author's intention when she was writing this novel was to touch on social classism and race, but I felt like those topics weren't really as fleshed out as I would like them to be, since I feel like it's what the author wanted to highlight. Forming a connection with the characters was really hard too since most of them felt flat and one-dimensional (with the exception of Zara).
I believe this novel had such a great potential but the execution wasn't really it unfortunately
Such a fun read is a story involves three characters mainly, and we see the point of view of two. which are Emira, the babysitter and Alix her very rich and privileged white employee. The third character is Kelly, your athlete white dude who is "so tall", and I included him because I feel he had a great influence on the story.
Kelly and Alix are both really odd individuals who were doing THE most just to avoid being called racist and be seen as "cool and progressive". They definitely have a lot of issues to work on. Alix was borderline obsessed with Emira but both wanted to be her "savior" so bad I was cringing for most of the story. My girl Emira deserved so much better than that. I suppose the author's intention when she was writing this novel was to touch on social classism and race, but I felt like those topics weren't really as fleshed out as I would like them to be, since I feel like it's what the author wanted to highlight. Forming a connection with the characters was really hard too since most of them felt flat and one-dimensional (with the exception of Zara).
I believe this novel had such a great potential but the execution wasn't really it unfortunately