This was super cute! My only qualm about it was it used everyone’s full name a weird amount of times.
Hollis is just trying to survive high school, which as an anxious fat girl, is proving to be difficult. But her boyfriend Chris makes it easier. Hollis wants to start playing Secrets and Sorcery—the fictional equivalent of Dungeons and Dragons—which is Chris’s favorite thing in the world, but Chris’s S&S group has a strict No-Girlfriend rule, meaning Hollis can’t play with them. Hollis searches high and low for a group to play with, and after an ill-fated game at a game shop, she discovers an all girl group of S&S players. She makes a spontaneous decision to join, and quickly finds an amazing found family in the girls. But then Hollis’s character starts tentatively flirting with the charismatic bard played by Aini Amin-Shaw, an outspoken girl who Hollis desperately wants to get closer to. But Hollis has a boyfriend, and she’s definitely straight. Plus, it’s just part of the game…right? This was a super cute story about Hollis finding herself, and I enjoyed it.
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