Ok, I rarely have super strong feelings on books but literally WTF was this. It’s a Covid book, which yeah there have been an increase in those. But this book is like halfway ABOUT Covid. Published in 2023!! Like dude, I know what Covid looked like. I lived it. I didn’t need to read an entire section, the ending section of the book if you will(!) where the main chapter and her beau take care of an old person with Covid. The presence of Covid actually might have killed this book for me. 

Also! I didn’t like Sally. She’s three dimensional and has real flaws and is funny. Her best section is the week at TNO. But man she is so insecure that it’s painful to read. The conversations they have about her freak outs are mundane. “This is fun and great! You are fun and great!” UGH! AND despite her complaining about being an average woman that no celebrity would fall in love with, SHE STILL HAS A CELEBRITY THAT FALLS IN LOVE WITH HER! Not to mention that he falls for her over the course of like three weeks.

The best part of this book was the first third, where the week at TNO is described. It honestly just made me want to read more about what goes on behind the scenes at Saturday Night Live. You can’t write a book that uses a concept that so clearly is about a cultural phenomenon and then ditch the concept after a third of the book to focus on a different worse cultural phenomenon! Likes who is the editor for this! Who let this happen! This book went from funny and witty and cool to boring and weary! I wish she would have stayed at TNO and maybe they fell in love when he came back to host a second time or a third time. Maybe their whole love story is told in sparse weeks at TNO. Maybe he moves to NY to be with her instead of her dropping everything to go to LA! She can screenwrite in NY you dummy!!! IDC IF SHE STILL ACHIEVES HER DREAM SHE GIVES UP HER FEMINIST I DONT GIVE A FUCK MENTALITY IN THE PROCESS AND THAT WAS RHE INLY LIKEABLW THING ABOUT HER!!!!!!!!!

Ok sorry end rant.