Rent Boy

1.5
The writing here is so spectacular that this book kind of feels like a car crash I can't look away from. I don't know. The second half of the novel is so much better than the first. We spent way too much time with the MC. A lot of the racism, misogyny, transphobia—actually, maybe all the -ias and-isms were present here and (surprise, surprise) I do not like it! I mean I guess I can understand the (“) creative decision (“) for such characteristics, and this is for sure a story where the author does not necessarily want his MC to be likeable, but I don't care for those stories. What's the point? To shock me? Well, I'm not shocked, just bored. This feels like such an “edgy” story written by a straight man, except it's not. We should've focused on the Emerson Club, that was the most interesting part of this story tbh. Such a disappointment. Cool cover though.