Published October 2024 via Amazon Original Stories
You know those instant, dizzying friendships? Lucy's friendship with Elle is one of those: despite their differences in age and experience, they just click, and Lucy knows she's found her person. But: Friendships are complicated, and easy doesn't always last forever.
I love stories about friendship—so many books focus on romance, and it's so nice to see ones that acknowledge how critically important platonic relationships can be. Often that means books about best friendships (as this short story is), but I'm just as happy with books about, I don't know, unexpected support from less close friends, and so on and so forth.
It's clear from early on that something is coming—I only skimmed the description before reading the story (too easy for a short story description to say a bit too much), but a story needs its climax, after all. I think I might have preferred something a little less abrupt; I've fallen out with friends in the past, but even when abrupt those times didn't feel quite so one-sided. (Not to say that it doesn't happen, just that I love me some grey area.) Still, I'd like to see more stories exploring the ins and out of platonic friendship and how devastating the loss of the friendship can be.
Thanks to the author and publisher for providing a review copy through NetGalley.
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