Evelyn "Evie" Kilbride has always been the quiet friend, a shy girl who never had much to say, happy to wait in the wings as her best friend Kelly, the loud, confident one, takes the spotlight or their new friend, the beautiful Claire gets all of the attention. In the summer of 2010, the three friends take a holiday by the beach on the sunny south east coast of Ireland. Lately, things between Evie and Kelly haven’t been feeling the same way that they used to, and when she meets Jude, a wild boy with startlingly good looks and an American accent, everything starts to unravel. She may not realise it now, but the things that happen this summer will leave a permanent mark on her life. Evie will look back on this summer and remember it forever.
Lucky Girl is a story about love and friendship, and the decisions we make in our youth, the people we meet that can change the course of our lives forever, and the vividness and potency of a time when life is full of longing and excitement, summers are endless and filled with intensity.
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Men are obsessed with being the very first ones to tell women that they’re attractive, like it’s some gift that they are privileged to bestow upon us. We’re floundering, lost in the world, completely blind to ourselves until some man comes along and lets us know what he thinks about us. I can’t agree with him, say that I know, or I’ve heard it all before, because then he’ll think I’m up myself. It always feels like a trap.
and yes, maybe she's fallen into some bad habits in the last year and a half since we've seen her, but more on that later!
Yeah that part about men telling women they're pretty is something that's bothered me for a long time. It's nice to be complimented, but it's the "hasn't anyone ever told you this before?" part that gets to me. It's as if they assume that you're really not attractive enough to have heard it from another person. It's truly a trap, a power move that puts you in a weird position where you can neither say yes or say no. Yes makes you arrogant, No hands over the power and allows him to feel smug. I hate hate hate this dynamic!!
Just when Evie is getting past Jude here comes another reminder. I agree with Evie that she can't have Jen in her life. Not right now anyhow and definitely not if it means coming face to face with Jude. It's good that she feels like she broke Jude's spell over her but the way it all happened was so awkward. Evie wasn't really there of her own free will, not entirely. It was only an act of appeasement really.
The thing with drinks having lewd names is framed as being fun and throwing off the burden of society's stodgy rules. It's the unspoken truth that those names and the drinks themselves are a device that give cover to men for their predatory acts. They're a trap as well. If you don't partake you're stuck up or a prude. If you have one and things take turn that ends in assault, well you were asking for it. You were having this drink called such and such, so you were clearly sending signals that you were on the pull and that the 'poor unsuspecting man' was being mislead. If does come to that they can spin it so that you were the one that was trying to trap them. Having drinks like that at home with a partner who you are in a committed relationship with can be fun. In public with strangers it's a very different, darker dynamic.
I'd forgotten how judgemental, pretentious and conformist student life was like back in the day. I share Evie's frustrations at the whole scene...although I never smoked, even for show...but the pressure to go to certain places, drink certain things and react a certain way was ever present.
that is such a good point about the cocktails, I honestly wasn't even thinking like that when I wrote it, but it really comes together! I really was just remembering those stupid bars I used to go to in college that had those boutique cocktails and items on the menu with names that are totally unrelated to what ingredients are in it. it always feels like a way to justify a higher price! It does reflect Evie's encounter with Stephen, as he frames himself one way, "I don't want to be one of those weird men." and yet is something else behind it, really, as Evie picks up the vibe that she's not going to get to leave until she kisses him. I suppose that's a pressure she's put on herself too, to push past any lingering feelings she has for Jude, so even if she didn't want to kiss Stephen she would have anyway. She's got everything twisted in her head right now..
@Kellogg_J_Kellogg I found it the very same as you. There was always this rhetoric of "oh no pressure! You don't have to do it" and yet if you didn't partake you'd be excluded from the fun everyone else was having. I never smoked either, only once when I was about sixteen and I hated the taste so much that I started crying - embarrassing. But there was another time that I tried to do my first shot to impress a boy and got shocked my how strong it was and couldn't finish it in one go, which I also felt was mega embarrassing. I just hadn't accepted that these things weren't for me, and I think that's indicative of that age. Evie goes through it too, only she's more eager to impress than I was, really.
He is literally arguing with her about the pronunciation of her own name, and then he doesn't get what needs to change about how he gives criticism
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That is an interesting question, though, what does Evie want to hear about aspects of her work that do have flaws (as everyone's does) ? She doesn't want to hear that they're perfect... what does she want to hear?
Evie's struggling a bit here - she honestly doesn't know what she wants to hear. I guess just no criticism at all. She's holding very tightly to the idea that she's a good artist and is having a hard time accepting that she might need to work on her craft - very much a symptom of a gifted child. Yikes!
As aggravating and generally disgusting as Dean is, he has a point. Evie is going to need to learn how to take criticism, whether it's deserved or not. When you put yourself out there creatively you're going to draw the Dean's of the world. On the other hand though his trying to use that as an excuse for his being rude and offensive is even more disgusting than what he says or how he says it. That is really slimy. No Dean, that is not an excuse, at all!
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