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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
dark
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Weirdly addictive
dark
funny
reflective
fast-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide, Violence
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
For some reason, I kept putting off reading this book. It would come up on Libby and I would suspend the hold. I’m choosing to believe I just needed to read it at the right time, because I absolutely loved this book from start to finish. It’s the first book in a while that I’ve truly missed when I’m not reading it, and while I was eager to finish it, I was devastated when it was over. Beautiful writing, sad and engaging, but also hilarious and profound.
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Capitol M MESSY. Honestly that kept me going through it- super interesting plot. A transcriber job sounds like a dream tbh. Omes would make me super uncomfy
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
As a certified "weird girl book" lover, this one was aggressively mid. What starts out as an interesting premise and a promise to be strange, Big Swiss devolves into long tangents that lead to no where and contribute little to the overall plot. While it can be argued that it adds to the world building and fleshing out the character, these tangents are rarely, if ever, brought up or recognized by anyone again. Except the bees and the old house, which both additions leave much to be desired. The run-down house is a representation of Greta herself, old, rundown, and difficult to manage. The bees seem to be there to be an allegory for the trauma, but are also there for the sake of being strange. The other tangents can feel strange and out of left field, totally disrupting the flow of the novel. What I gleamed from the book, and what seems to be the entire characters of Greta and Big Swiss is that trauma makes you interesting. All these things happened to Greta, she didn't do anything herself but break up with her fiancé after 10 years, and even then that is forgotten by the book by page 150. Greta herself isn't interesting besides the things that happen to her in her past, her very very full and traumatic past as the author loves to point out over and over again. Big Swiss adds to this list by initiating the affair, another thing that happens to Greta. Big Swiss is only interesting to Greta because of this terrible thing that happened to her, and the fact that she suspects that Big Swiss is currently being stalked excites her even more. This is shallow novel that thinks its standing in the deep end, and fails to be interesting for itself.