Melanie's Reviews > Two Can Play

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“It just… fills me with immense joy, being with him, telling him things, waiting to hear what he’ll say back, being reminded of his existence.”

two game designers go with their respective companies to a snowy ski resort, in hopes that a bigger video game company allows them to work together to develop a new installment in a very beloved book series made into a game. yet, our two mcs have a little bit of a confusing past with one another, but that confusion hasn’t stopped them from longing after the other one for years. i truly feel like this could be maybe the best miscommunication in the past i’ve ever read. this was short, romantic, fun, and just a really good version of what it is. i had a great time reading this, and the other young rose and adrian during vampire academy’s snowy ski resort reader will probably appreciate this extra, too.

but my favorite part of this was seeing a favorite story being revisited during different times, in very different ways, in one of the character's lives, and it was really thought provoking and touching. and a really beautiful reminder that sometimes we can make our favorite stories even better.

trigger + content warnings: anxiety, misogyny in the workplace in the past, two brief sentences talking about family commenting on body image and food in the past, public embarrassment in the past, one sentence mention of cheating in the past (side characters), talk of parent with an illness in past, loss of a parent in past, grief, drinking, and a one sentence joke about kidnapping and trafficking

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