The Guest
Ratings88
Average rating3.4
Nothing actually happens in this book. It's just the same thing over and over with a toxic and completely unlikeable main character. And then it just ends without resolution in an open ending. I guess you could get something out of this if you're looking for commentary about the human condition, but at no point did this book entertain me.
TWs: Sex with a minor, drug use
4.5 rounded up; It's amazing how much attention a reader can pour into an unlikeable character's story. Alex is a 22 year-old woman who hops places after a misstep with her ‘lover' Simon. She eventually finds a way into multiple people's lives, figuring out how she can use people and manipulate them so that she can shelter with them until Simon's party on Labor Day weekend.
It was a truly gripping read, unsure how Alex was going to act and figure out things as we went along with her story. Her personality was truly manipulative, only caring about her current situation and destination. The most frustrating part for me was Jack, who's a minor ;-; all of her 'errors', only causing Jack trauma and who knows what happened after the ending. It was terribly sad. The ending..!!
The narrator did such a great job, it wrecked me ;-;
left much to be desired, great writing; kept me reading despite having an unlikable main character
This was such a disappointing book. It was just this girl wandering around town. There was no introspective moments that I got from it. Some of the situations she got into were interesting but that's about it.
The book was effective at what it was trying to be - a tense portrait of a deeply unlikeable mess of a character, who grifts her way into people's lives and then sabotages them. It was generally well-written and a fast read.
But perhaps because it was so effective, I really did not enjoy reading it. I had to physically put it down at times to get away from the tension.
just got out of my slump and this book is about to put me back IN ONE (dnf'd at 58%)
waste of my spotify premium audiobook hours
