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taleen2's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
kdahlo's review against another edition
3.0
This book has a deliberately annoying narrator and makes less of an interesting premise than I would have expected. Still, I enjoyed my time with the characters, and the writing was funny.
bedtimesnack's review against another edition
funny
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
I think this book has interesting things to say but I had such a hard time being patient enough to hear them out. A bit of a slog to get through.
lillycano's review against another edition
3.0
I need my friends to read this book so I can hear their opinion. I am stumped if I loved or hated this book. It kind of hurts my head what I just read. The main character doesn’t have a name and becomes a okcupid serial dater. I kept flipping to the front of the book confused what I was reading, double checking that it was in fact a novel and not a think piece. Help friends.
purplepierogi's review against another edition
2.0
just pages and pages of twitter drivel of someone really boring
pandoramedusa's review
1.0
DNF @ page 125.
I just felt I was reading the thoughts of a very self-involved woman that I just didn't care about. I wish we would go deeper into the accounts of the boyfriend because that was the only interesting thing to me, but no.
I just felt I was reading the thoughts of a very self-involved woman that I just didn't care about. I wish we would go deeper into the accounts of the boyfriend because that was the only interesting thing to me, but no.
literarycrushes's review against another edition
2.0
The opening premise for Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler was unique and intriguing: an unnamed young woman finds out her boyfriend has been secretly running an Instagram account full of conspiracy theories and pro-Trump propaganda. Unfortunately, this storyline was pretty quickly cast aside (I don’t want to give spoilers, but it is picked up again only in the last few pages of the book) in favor of the main character’s decision to leave her life in New York and move to Berlin.
I was into the book for the first 50 or so pages, but lost interest that was never regained towards the middle of the book. The main character is (purposefully, I think) incredibly narcissistic and self-introspective. She often has funny and insightful comments about what it’s like to be a rudderless millennial (especially one living abroad), but these were often painfully drawn out where points that could have been proven in a sentence or two were drawn out into pages and pages of stream-of-conscious thoughts. She definitely had things to say about social media and how our lives are essentially dictated by it, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend reading it for 272 pages.
I was into the book for the first 50 or so pages, but lost interest that was never regained towards the middle of the book. The main character is (purposefully, I think) incredibly narcissistic and self-introspective. She often has funny and insightful comments about what it’s like to be a rudderless millennial (especially one living abroad), but these were often painfully drawn out where points that could have been proven in a sentence or two were drawn out into pages and pages of stream-of-conscious thoughts. She definitely had things to say about social media and how our lives are essentially dictated by it, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend reading it for 272 pages.
coruscations's review against another edition
2.0
One of the worst books I've ever read. Pretentious, self obsessed, pointless, boring.