Post by Dabeagle on Feb 10, 2021 15:07:41 GMT -5
There will be some things that we can identify with from characters, and some things we cannot. I was reminded of a conversation years ago where a story featured the sudden spending of thousands of dollars on a new, unplanned child as if it were simply a matter of course. In my experience that's a stressor, not a casual m ark in one's checkbook. That conversation was brought to mind while reading If We Were Us, which details four couples. Charlie is 'everyone's Type' according to his best friend Sage - and everyone assumes that Sage and Charlie are destined to be married. But then Sage kissed Nick, Charlie's twin. That's before Luke shows up at school - and while the feelings and emotions and struggles were very well done and attention to emotions, I kept tripping over the lifestyle.
These kids are rich. Boarding school, see the folks on a weekend or holiday kind of rich. I had trouble connecting to that part of the story, even as a fantasy, so (wrongly) some of the characters emotional issues were blunted by a feeling they were a bit ungrateful of their circumstances, though in all honestly every childhood is a personal and subjective experience and not to be compared to another.
The story was good, the reading easy and well worth picking up.