Her Body and Other Parties

I heard so much about this book, and I so very much wanted to like it more than I did.

There are stories hung loosely on narratives that are really just lists of things, or a description of lists of things. An inventory of sexual experience during a rando plague of some sort. Descriptions of Law & Order: SVU plots, but not really the plots; and I would rather have read a story with what was going on rather than what I read, because that got incredibly tedious. There were some more formally structured short stories with slight horror elements, but the ends delivered no punch. There was cleverness abounding, but it did not signify enough. And that's a shame.

Also, multiple times in the first few stories, there were references indicating popping cherries. HYMENS DON'T WORK LIKE THAT. I'm over cherries being popped, because they aren't.

I'm fine with the erotic elements, the anger, the bitterness. Those are what I like. I just wanted better stories and less gimmick.