There were things about the way Walker and Frankie know each other and their roles in each other’s lives that didn’t sit well with me. Yet, there are things the author included that helped even the scales. For instance, not only was the age gap acknowledged but so was the potential power dynamic. Then another side to the coin was shown. But this short story still ended up feeling stilted to me. The flow worked beautifully at times, and not so much at others. There are many novellas I have read by this author so I know it’s not the short page count that was the problem. This story just didn’t fully work. It was close, but just not all the way there.

That being said, I need to mention the editing issues I had with this book because they very well could have played into how the flow didn’t always work for me. There were many instances of words being left out of sentences (example: “Had not kids yet.” That was the full sentence.) or words being repeated in sentences. There was even an time or two where the words were swapped around in the wrong order. I can see that happening when you’re typing/writing away in the moment of the story. But they are things that should be caught in editing. It was disappointing from this author and this publishing team that it happened so many times in such a short story.