Ratings418
Average rating3.5
Ottessa Moshfegh x Chuck Palahniuk x Meg Cabot? Creative and visceral. A little redundant but shortcut-pithy at the same time. Author did a great job at establishing nightmarishness/reality confusion.
Spoilers: Had a hard time at the beginning because I generally don't like when a POV character is reductively judgmental in a way that's elitist and antifeminist, until I can tell for sure the author isn't using the POV as a vector to trash the target people. Unclear how much that was a goal here, but the trait seems like it was mostly meant to be a character development anchor and paint a vivid picture. I love/hate theory so I enjoyed the jabs at it within the story shaped by it. Unfamiliar with literary world drama, sure I missed some stuff because of this.