Brutes

Girls sharing a collective conscious in a way, and experiencing fucked up things.

Rating: 3.38 leaves out of 5Characters: 2.75/5 Cover: 3.75/5Story: 4/5Writing: 3/5Genre: Contemporary/MysteryType: AudiobookWorth?: YesHated Disliked It Was Okay Liked Really Liked LovedWow... okay where to begin? So how from what I was told about this book I think was a bit wrong? Or maybe, because I had to wait for my loan at the library, that I might have gotten it mixed with something different. Either way, wow. So it does give me virgin suicide feels, a lot. I loved it in that sense. I highly suggest you check trigger warnings though. This book was as wild as the everglades. The only reason it isn't rated higher is the fact that I was confused in some places but other than that, a really good read.

I wanted to like this, I really did, and the most spectacular part about it is I loved the last chapter- it was like a scene from an A24 movie.
The problem is, you have to get to the last chapter.
I don't mind a chorus of voices as narrators (We Ride Upon Sticks did it perfectly). I also read a novel a couple of years ago that took place in an office and the employees all spoke as one? Blanking on the name. Very well done.
The problem with Brutes is the storytelling is so vague, the reader just can't tell what the hell is going on. The “girls” are telling us they “know what happened” but they don't tell the reader. They also claim no one is asking them, but that's untrue, several characters flat-out ask them and they choose not to answer.
Then....we get these individual POV chapters of The Girls in the future and they drop us down into new stories where, you guessed it, the reader still isn't being let in on what's going on. So, added frustration.
I think by the end I pieced most of it together. But did I care by then? I did not.
If Tate had thrown us a bone every once in awhile, I might not be so salty.
I feel like this was really written for the big screen. Big scenes of crying mothers holding each other under a big white tent and a pink Florida sky. Similar to the the crying scene in Midsommar. I'm just highly unimpressed. I think I hung in there because I really did care what happened with Sammy.