A Show for Two

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All Mina Rahman wants is to finally win the Golden Ivy student film competition, get into her dream school, and leave New York City behind for good. When indie film star Emmitt Ramos enrolls in her high school under a secret identity to research his next role, he agrees to star in her short film for the competition… if she acts as his NYC tour guide. cough* The celebrity romance!!! LIKE???? EXCUSE ME???? YES???? PORFAVOR??? The THINGS I would sacrifice to be able to experience this. Well, maybe not experience- because the drama is an added bother in my existence. But maybe fictionally experience? In a fake yet real way? I’ll shut up now. As time has gone by (literal months to provide an accurate albeit exaggerated timeframe) and the fangirling feelings I had once upon a time for this story started to diminish and make clear all the flaws I was too lazy to find previously, I’ve decided that this was an ‘alright’ book. a little side note here: for those that don't know, bangladesh is a very artistically rich country. our entire culture holds artists, poets, singers, authors and filmmakers in high regard. they're seen as the lifeblood of our nation. so i really think it would have been cool if mina's parents were supportive of her and understood her art, but she faced conflict elsewhere. like, she's a WOC trying to make it in the film industry--there could have been so many nuanced, important discussions on the barriers she'll face for simply being of colour. i also think it would have been amazing to see discussions on bangladeshi directors, films and how mina is inspired by their storytelling techniques. instead, her film is about some bland love story despite her bragging about how diverse the film club is lmao???

If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month. despite being too old for books like this and despite counting down with you being one of my most hated books last year, i was still going to read a show for two. why? because i, too, am bangladeshi, muslim & gen z--and it seems i'm not going to find representation like that outside of this genre. How shallow the familial relationships were (I believe they were flesh and cardboard, so it’s an improvement! Right?) I think this has been my problem with books from this author and Asian representations, be it South Asian among others. See, I am from the Hispanic community, so I have no hand to judge it, however, BECAUSE I’m part of a minority, I can say that not all parents are like that, and it’s sad that all the Asian representation I see nowadays just touches on that aspect. Yes, it’s incredibly accurate, more so than most, however, I believe that there is some good to be found. Some understanding to comprehend in how the parents act. Don’t get me wrong, trying to dictate your child’s way of living is unforgivable, but I feel like the main character and her sister made them out to be worse than they were. Does Mina like any specific directors? Cinematographers? Composers? Is she excited about any new releases? She apparently likes screenwriting, so who’s her favorite? She doesn’t even step foot in a movie theater until Emmitt **Rents One Out For Her.** Does she care about the politics of the entertainment industry, its history or future accountability? USC's film school serves as this distant green light at the end of the bay, but USC is a 1. primarily for grad students and 2. highly specialized and specific. So what part of the industry is she truly passionate about? Lewis Capaldi's girlfriend Ellie MacDowall shares Scottish BAFTA red carpet snaps and fans all say the same thing

This is why I always finish the books I start. I was halfway through this one and I wasn't really enjoying it cause I kind of hated the main character (I still don't like her, but I don't hate her now), but she has some character growth and I end up liking the book and the romance.

now, rep problems aside, i also have qualms and concerns with bhuiyan's writing, which, not only uneven in pacing, seems to fail at fleshing out characters to be truly dimensional and tangible. i admit that i am holding this author's works to a higher standard, because i truly had hope and high expectations for her work, and i always want to see women of colour succeed in an industry that seems to predominantly cast light on white women(sjm, cassie clare, colleen hoover, regarding ya and romance publishing spaces). after reading em's review, which reports this book to be no greater than bhuiyan's previous work, i am disappointed, to say the least. bhuiyan states this is her love letter to new york, but it doesn't show in the writing. i really wish we got to EXPERIENCE new york--instead we got passages like "we're in madison square garden. now we're on the subway. i love new york!" there was nothing descriptive; no sounds, sights or smells indicating what about new york is so amazing. i didn't get a single hint of what new york's culture or vibe is really like and i think it further proves how weak the writing was. Diana dies in the final season of The Crown, but that doesn’t mean she leaves. So vital has the Princess of Wales become to the Netflix drama that the show can’t manage without her: she appears as a sort of ghost, materialising on the plane home from Paris to comfort a distraught Prince of Wales, and on the sofa at Balmoral to give the Queen some friendly PR advice. we're not done with emmit. yes, he's as bland as they come but making him say "love" at the end of every sentence?? i don't think even actual british people say it as this man did in two scenes. he also smirks too much. it seems to be his default expression and im tired of it.A SHOW FOR TWO is a YA contemporary novel and was written as a love letter to new york city. it's inspired by when tom holland went undercover as a student at my high school during my senior year (which is still surreal to think about), even though emmitt and tom are very different from one another. i like to think they'd be friends in this alternate universe, though!

Book Genre: Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Health, LGBT, Mental Health, Romance, Young Adult, Young Adult Contemporary, Young Adult Romance It doesn’t help that I’m not a big fan of first-person point of view, which is made worse by some really strange sentence construction that Bhuiyan employs (present perfect tense which threw off my sense of time off so subtly it bothered me through the entire novel). I also think perhaps she saw criticism of her previous two protagonists, that they were in general toothless and without any flaws or friction, and then just went wildly swinging in the other direction. Mina and Emmitt are truly abrasive and unpleasant to read about. I didn't feel their relationship develop at all, just a switch flip somewhere around the middle of the novel. Their dialogue, which some call banter but I call excruciating is punctuated with unnatural pet names and "Gen Z" slang which is so hyperspecific to a certain kind of internet subculture, it reads as juvenile, with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. emmit is literally the LI in cdwy (forgot his name)--down to the "bad boy" smirks and the rings and brooding personality that's just a cover for his sad, vulnerable heart. also they both have secret passions their parents would disapprove of so you can empathise with how HARD their poor lives areand if it's not just them, it's mina with emmitt, whose first meeting is absolutely terrible and riddled with so much antagonism and i couldn't help but wonder " how are they possibly going to soften up to each other? and then i just found myself so caught up in the adventures they take around new york city, capturing so many moments together on film, it was like they were in a motion picture with them as the starring leads. seeing the way they lower each other's defenses and genuinely connect over their shared love of the arts and how it connects to their lives, it was very sweet and so incredibly heartfelt because there's so much surprise they find in how much they come to relate to each other. it's as if they couldn't even fathom the idea of the other being an equal of sorts and yet as soon as that line connects them both, they bond so well it made me shriek with how much my heart bursted at the seams (honestly).

Thank you Netgalley for ruining my expectations once again. If a celebrity doesn't call me sweetheart or love- Dang it, I need a life.

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She frustrated me sooooo much. I get that she had a lot of family issues with her parents, but that is no excuse to treat everyone like shit? She literally met a stranger on the street and without even knowing him, started insulting him because she has anger issues. Not only that, she also never considered her best friend's feelings or her sister's!! She was mad at the world for a good 90% of the book. The arguments were super ridiculous and most of them could've easily been avoided if she were more empathetic.