by Jenn (link)
Genre drama/angst
Pairings none
Length 5 sessions
Status Completed (third in a series of three stories)
I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from this story, given that it was so much shorter than the first two. I actually double-checked that it was finished, and yes, it is. I expected the “sessions” to be recording sessions, but instead, they’re counseling sessions.
I wasn’t sure how to feel about that, and truthfully, I don’t think I like it very much. It feels like a bit of a cop-out, and an easy way to “fix” Zac after everything he went through in the other two stories. Isaac’s story ended, effectively, in Maybe Tomorrow. While Taylor’s was left open ended, I think now that his bus ride in the first story was to visit Sydney, and so I can assume a happy ending for his story, too.
Zac, though, doesn’t get as much closure in the second story. This third story, I feel, was written just as an after thought, to attempt to give him a happier ending. Unlike the other two, his ending doesn’t involve ending up with the girl. I’m surprised to find myself wanting that, after how much the emphasis on “true love” seemed to bother me. This story just seems too short and too easily wrapped up to be an entire story on its own. When the rest of the series seemed plotted out in detail, this one feels extraneous and leaves me a little disappointed.
Review by Bethany (website)