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alytodd's review
2.0
I was so disappointed with this book.
Cara Hoffman's "So Much Pretty" is one of my favorite books, and i've been sure to check out anything else she's written, but this one really didn't work for me. Maybe i just wasn't in the right headspace. I found it incredibly hard to follow - both in the time line and who's voice (since it switched around a bit), and keeping track of who was who felt incredibly difficult. Thus, i didn't feel like i understood how the plot was moving forward, if at all.
i'd skip this one.
Cara Hoffman's "So Much Pretty" is one of my favorite books, and i've been sure to check out anything else she's written, but this one really didn't work for me. Maybe i just wasn't in the right headspace. I found it incredibly hard to follow - both in the time line and who's voice (since it switched around a bit), and keeping track of who was who felt incredibly difficult. Thus, i didn't feel like i understood how the plot was moving forward, if at all.
i'd skip this one.
melissadeemcdaniel's review
4.0
A powerful book that spoke to me about the exhilaration and danger of living on the edge of engagement and non-engagement, belonging to the world and belonging only to oneself. Three dispossessed young adults come together in Athens, and for a brief moment become entwined. The separate drives that motor their lives never stop running, though, and soon they are cast out onto their individual trajectories.
claben's review
5.0
Shattering look at class and violence. Prose at times reminiscent of St. Aubyn but with a more complex plot.
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