Taylor’s
story portrays the main character, Brad, and his attempts to survive as a
manager of a hotel. He controls
and directs a small staff of people and becomes fond of Alyson, a fellow
employee. After a wild sorority
party in the hotel, the two decide to go out for drinks despite their previous
one night stand.
Some
of the things that I really liked about the story was the use of dialogue. It seemed very realistic for these
characters to speak this way due to their young adulthood. The short sentences and multiple curse words
worked well. As far as the plot
goes, I had a hard time making sense of what was happening. There seemed to be a lot of
distractions from the initial story line, which is the relationship between
Alyson and Brad. I appreciated
some of the later characters introduced, such as the Australian and the Californian. I thought that they were going to add a
new level of depth in the story, but instead they seemed to get in the
way. I felt this way about the
entire party as well. It may as
well have never happened. I kept
on expecting at some point the two were going to settle their differences at
the hotel. But instead, we sift
through a large amount of fluff to reach the conclusion where they get drinks
together and everything is presumed to be just fine.
The
title also could have been a little stronger and more relevant to the
story. Who’s being sincere and
losing it? In all, I thought that
the story and setting was very interesting. There are a lot of ways for this story to pan out and be
fantastic. For now, I think that
the author can work on cutting to the chase (which is definitely a problem I have). I enjoyed the story.
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