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A review by lizanneyoung
All by My Elf by Olivia Dade
3.0
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Another in the recently released Amazon Original holiday collections, this one follows adjunct faculty members and the seasonal gig they take on to pay the bills. I went into this one without reading the blurb, so I was then very surprised that they were driving around in the equivalent of an Oscar Meyer mobile but for meat pies.
While I like how off the cuff this novella is, an important aspect to Nina’s, the FMC, identity wasn’t revealed until the final ~15% of the story, which I think made it difficult to integrate well enough. Honestly, I don’t think the story needed it at all, since it didn't’ change how anything went. I understand the effort to include it, but it just came a bit too late to be effective.