This novella has basically all of the ingredients of a book I would love, but somehow it didn't really come together for me.
It's a classic setup: 13 years after Mitch left Texas to pursue dance, he returns to his small hometown to deal with his late father's estate and runs into his high school love again. Mitch is reeling from his dancer boyfriend cheating on him and when he sees Web again, all of his old feelings come rushing back. Also, it's Christmas!
I don't know. It was very readable, and the setting and their history together and Mitch's current life as a dancer were all detailed and specific and fit. But I never quite cared. It felt like a paint by the numbers story to me, because the book didn't sell me on the connection between Web and Mitch. It was one part "oh god please just talk to each other" and another part "wait but how exactly would their future relationship work if Mitch is still a professional dancer," full of problems that were simultaneously too easy to solve and also far too big to be resolved in one conversation. It didn't hit the mark, for me.
Grade: C
It's a classic setup: 13 years after Mitch left Texas to pursue dance, he returns to his small hometown to deal with his late father's estate and runs into his high school love again. Mitch is reeling from his dancer boyfriend cheating on him and when he sees Web again, all of his old feelings come rushing back. Also, it's Christmas!
I don't know. It was very readable, and the setting and their history together and Mitch's current life as a dancer were all detailed and specific and fit. But I never quite cared. It felt like a paint by the numbers story to me, because the book didn't sell me on the connection between Web and Mitch. It was one part "oh god please just talk to each other" and another part "wait but how exactly would their future relationship work if Mitch is still a professional dancer," full of problems that were simultaneously too easy to solve and also far too big to be resolved in one conversation. It didn't hit the mark, for me.
Grade: C
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