The Mars House

listen. i LOVED the kingdoms. but this was a train wreck i couldn't look away from. i finished it but i had to keep stopping and looking into the distance and saying “what” to myself.

i simply do not understand why natasha pulley and the multitudes of people who must have read this before it was published never sat down and thought: if this is a book that is extremely reliant on one specific analogy and it is a pretty all-encompassing, essential one, maybe... the analogy... should be good... and not, in fact, terrible.
feel kinda speechless. read the top reviews of this for people who have valiantly put into detail why so much of the execution of this book is SO messy. but wow. just wow. 

Would not recommend, but also just couldn't put it down. Voice and writing was great. Plot actually ended up with a couple of decent twists, but was pretty slow. But boy was this book just so, so cringe. If I start giving examples, this review might end up as long as the book. I wish I could make someone else read it just so we could rip it to shreds together. Shared that thought with Gabber by text, and she introduced me to the perfectly-coined term ‘hate-reading'.

Will probably try another book by this author because I really enjoyed reading this one, but if the cringe is still there, I am not sure if I can take it again.