Tangerine

A plodding, unexciting book, filled with clichéd tropes and two-dimensional characters. I kept waiting for the grand reveal where everything would fall into place, where the pages that had come before would finally come alive after an unexpected revelation... after reaching the end, checking the acknowledgements and thoroughly examining the back cover, it seems I was out of luck.

This book never captured my attention; I did not find any of the characters engaging or realistic or interesting.

This was just not good. The author tells the story in alternating narrators each chapter, yet both of these vastly different women sound exactly the same. I literally found myself going back pages to figure out who was even talking. As far as the story, it feels like it tried to go for some sort of twisty shock value but it's just hollow and not all that shocking, just unbelievable in a dumb way. For a book set in Tangier, I felt little connection to the setting or why the characters even were there in the first place.