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Book review: The Sluts The Sluts by Dennis Cooper The format of this book is cool, I love the reviews and being able to try and suss out the truth from fact. That said it was a bit hard to picture anyone or have any details because they were just names on a page, but
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When no one is watching by Alyssa Cole This was very well done. I loved a lot about it, the racism, the two POVS to really show the differences in their experience. Using the people buying up the properties as the antagonists, and the corporation being evil as well. I think my only issue was
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A little luck by Claudia Piñeiro The way this is written, like Elena knows, is fascinating. You know something is off and wrong, but you don’t know what. And instead of it being a plot centered mystery, we get to watch a character slowly unravel. I am officially obsessed and I will buy anything this
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Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan Her writing is fantastic as always. The first three shorts were my favorite, the second last two my least, but still good. I think most short story collections end up being a 4 for me because there’s always some I don’t enjoy as much, but realistically this was
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Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali I saw this on Instagram and booktok with other favorites and added it to my list on a whim. Wow, I’m glad I did. The depths of despair and loneliness in this book are unmatched. A life unloved, a life frozen in imagination, without anyone to share
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Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid This was good, especially the narration. If I had read the physical book I don’t think it would have been worth it. Because of the format, the interviews, you don’t really get enough emotional depth from the characters other that them saying they felt things. I
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Vox by Christina Dalcher The ideas in this are interesting and there’s something good. Might just be Julia Whalen. But there’s also so much repetition and I got bored by the 30% mark. The pacing was off. I didn’t really love any characters or the plot as we were told it. This was trying to
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The Lamb by Lucy Rose This book was absolutely incredible. The family dynamic, the desperate loneliness of being a girl. The apathetic narration of Margot, used to her mother’s hunger and hate. The coin flip of love and hate between her and her mother. The unpredictable nature of the mom and the crazy shit her
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Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green One of the things I love about the author’s writing is his focus on a single character (or in this case, real person, Henry) so as we got through the history, we are also thinking about the specific people and not just big numbers. I quite enjoyed this and
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William by Mason Coile It was fine, the kind of book you read in one sitting and don’t think about again. The characters aren’t great, interesting, or anything special, and the way they react to things feels so odd. The writing isn’t super effective as horror goes: tension wasn’t built to scare level, and I
Precious Trash 