As the description says, and title implies, this is a homage to Thelma and Louise. And whilst I enjoy a modern retelling of a classic fairy tale I’m not sure why we need remakes of films (even in literary form).
This feels like the book equivalent of when Disney make live-action versions of their animated classics. Novel, by at the end of the day, thoroughly unnecessary.
That said, I appreciate that literature and society as a whole needs more examples of women being supportive of one another, so the bond between the lead characters in this book is encouraging. It’s nice to see women, even fictional ones, lifting each other up instead of criticising and putting each other down. Perhaps the Thelma and Louise movie would have been much different if made in a time of mom-shaming and internet trolls.
However, for me, I would have preferred a more original Road-trip buddy story, without it being so explicitly derived from the movie.
This feels like the book equivalent of when Disney make live-action versions of their animated classics. Novel, by at the end of the day, thoroughly unnecessary.
That said, I appreciate that literature and society as a whole needs more examples of women being supportive of one another, so the bond between the lead characters in this book is encouraging. It’s nice to see women, even fictional ones, lifting each other up instead of criticising and putting each other down. Perhaps the Thelma and Louise movie would have been much different if made in a time of mom-shaming and internet trolls.
However, for me, I would have preferred a more original Road-trip buddy story, without it being so explicitly derived from the movie.