Getting It Together by Sina Grace

​     The cheap looking cover should have turned me off, but no, I read it anyway. And to be fair, the art inside is a considerable improvement upon the cover…so much for putting their best foot forward first, but at any rate, this book didn’t really do much for me. Or more like this book did nothing for me except remind me what a terribly tedious generation millennials are. Or is it GenX already?
     Whatever they are, the 20something timewasters in this book are apparently getting it together, meaning there are trying to sort out their messy love lives and friendships. And I mean messy, not a single straightforward uncomplicated decent relationship to be found here. These kids or whatever they think themselves to be are mostly a barely employed promiscuous bunch of directionless bundles of precociousness who spout the latest in wokespeak while communicating with each other, but none of their conversations go anywhere.  
     There’s one proverbial (and literal) straight guy meant presumably as a foil who actually has a job, wants a semblance normal relationship, all that. Sadly he picks a musician for his partner, who of course has very different ideas for her life i.e. fame. So she cheats on him and he mopes about it, mostly to his bff who is a gay brother of his ladylove. That’s actually the bulk of the book, although there’s also a significant amount of pages dedicated to just how promiscuous the gay brother actually is, as he orders sex off the apps.
      So, sure, this can be billed as the Friends for the new generation with ample albeit one sided LGBTQ representation and music, which may sound like fun…but what you’re really getting is a trite sitcom style goings on of a bunch of whiny babysnowflakes whose most profound moments come from rolling on Molly. All done in decent but nothing special sort of art.
     If this is meant to be an interesting, exciting and engaging insight into a generation…look away. Nothing much to see here. Then again, it’s possible people of the same age group and mentality might find it relatable. For all others…maybe these characters will be worth reading once they get it together, but their process isn’t worth the time.