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Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky

3 reviews

rachaelwho's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Original. Messed-up. I hated everyone but the mom and the mistress. Sometimes the terribleness of the characters was a little too on the nose, but it doesn't seem fair to take a star for that. All the acting is a bit camp and it's intentional, but the voice actor for Rachel was doing too much to make her "sound" annoying-- she's already annoying, it's in the text, you don't have to "do a voice"-- and her accent for Zahid was distractingly off. Not my favorite. I have done questions about what exactly her interest in race is and what motivated her to choose to write a pair of white-presenting biracial women, where their claim to blackness is handled unseriously. Not really sure I'm fine with that. It's not a toy.
Very nicely done story overall, callbacks were smooth and impressive, a lot of complex themes and motifs and moving parts. I'm really looking forward to where this author will be in five or ten years.
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deezy's review against another edition

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funny tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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opossumom's review against another edition

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dark funny slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

fuck no
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