by Sammy (link)
Genre cest, romance, comedy
Pairings Isaac/OFC, Taylor/OFC, Zac/OFC, Zaylor
Length 120 chapters and epilogue
Status Completed (first in an ongoing series of three)
Pages isn’t the first Zaylor story I have read but it is the first one I read where Taylor and Zac both teens, set around the ages they were in late 97 and early 98. It was something that irked me slightly because I’m still not sure how I feel reading younger Zaylor stories, especially younger Zaylor stories with smut in them.
The premise of Pages was good with Zac finding Taylor’s diary and reading it, thus finding out how Taylor felt for him that way and that was also the start of this really long chaptered roller coaster story. A story that I did like in some aspects but for the most part I found kind of lacking in other departments.
While I loved the Zaylor bond and relationship and sometimes the slow pace of it, I felt they kept having too many issues like Sammy wanted to throw every major curve ball at them when a few minor issues would have been just fine and okay. Instead though with the major issues it just seemed to drag the story on for much longer than it probably should have went on.
I also felt like at times Zac’s thoughts didn’t suit the age he was supposed to be. Sometimes they came across as someone much older than their teens but then again sometimes they seemed to come across just like someone in their teens, I just wish Zac hadn’t been so sex obsessed at times because they did get kind of boring.
I think my favorite thing out of the story though was Zac and Maddie and their relationship, though it seemed a lot of readers at the time this was getting posted didn’t like them I did but then again in stories that contain Zaylor almost all the fans expect Zaylor to be endgame and as a writer I have to say that sometimes that doesn’t work out and a part of me half wished that had happened here but it didn’t.
Instead Zaylor end on a happy note… at least until the sequel, which I am kind of looking forwarded to reading in hopes it makes up for what I didn’t like about Pages.
Review by Elizabeth (tumblr)