Jawbone

So verbose and boring. I can't imagine I'm going to suddenly start enjoying this at any point.

I disagree with a lot of reviews that this book was too gruesome, strange, or touched on these high school girls sexuality without tact or intent.

Rather, the cruel hierarchy and shenanigans of these girls is completely plausible, I just had issue with the pacing and the structure of this novel, which I understand is possibly due to the translation. I feel like the jumping between times really undercuts the tension, as I matter of fact I didnt feel like there was much tension.

The two events I was most interested in were glossed over, the chats with the therapist were hit or miss in terms of prose, and I feel like the atmosphere was not as fleshed out as I wanted it to be. Still I will be reading other works from Ojeda because there was still things I enjoyed from this work. Wish I could give a 2.8 or a 2.9 star review.

I liked how gross this was but didn't vibe with the writing style. Sometimes the metaphors crossed over from poetic and creative to something that felt like a poor translation, and the multiple page sprints with no paragraph breaks were hard to keep focus on. Stylistically not for me even though I wanted to love it!