Such a Fun Age

I was so confused by this book. All of the characters are complete caricatures to the point where I thought the author was trying to make a statement about stereotyping. And then I realized that the joke was on me - she's being totally serious in her representations. Oh. My. Gosh. There are so many infuriatingly unbelievable parts of this book that I don't even want to relive them long enough in my head to write them down here.

Two huge things irked me to no end: The “relationship” between Kelley and Emira was laughable. She's immature with nothing to offer an almost middle-aged man, so where's the draw? How am I to believe this is a real relationship? It was so unbelievable that I was sure that he had been stalking Alex/Alix and trying to involve himself in her life by dating her sitter. How disappointing to know the author was actually trying to portray a legitimate relationship. Yikes!

The scenes with both sets of friends made me want to cringe. None of the friends had any depth and they were all cookie-cutter stereotypes. And the slang used within Emira's group was so overdone. We get it, they're young Black women, but the author seems to insinuate that their ethnicities cancel out the fact that they're also college-educated professionals.

Ugh, I'm getting angry all over again about these stupid characters. Save yourself the trouble and skip this book.