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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I was won over by the writing style before I fell in love with the characters. To see two characters make the same terrible mistakes and tear each other apart was hard, but from that so much beauty and self reflection grew. They needed to break and bring each other down to rock bottom to learn how to save themselves. I dont think that either would have been happy without first being unhappy together.
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
The third star is for Eleanor, who I think deserved her own book away from all these awful people.
emotional
funny
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
funny
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The first, and I hope the only, book that made me feel physically ill.
I don't like Frank. I hate Cleo. And I absolutely despise that fucker Anders. And here's a special space for Eleanore - I'm not sure if I like her or if she's an unlikeable cunt.
I don't like Frank. I hate Cleo. And I absolutely despise that fucker Anders. And here's a special space for Eleanore - I'm not sure if I like her or if she's an unlikeable cunt.
2.5 rounded up.
Something about this kind of book is intoxicating to me but I think it’s almost like hate watching a show you really don’t like to complain about it?
✅ This book challenges your perception of the characters as it goes along, you are meant to dislike almost all of them, but then there are moments where you empathise or you start to understand their approach. It’s very clever writing- if you like Sally Rooney I imagine you love this but that brings me on to why I didn’t…
❌ Respectfully, there’s no plot to this book. After Cleo and Frank meet (the chapters I did enjoy!) nothing happens except time passing. You see snippets of the side characters lives but nothing is developed. Quentin’s character is so interesting to begin with but nothing is explored and he hits cliche after cliche. Zoe’s foray into being a sugar baby was so short lived. Even Eleanor’s part to play was so minor.
❌ Cleo hits every trope of painful millennial artist it makes your eyes roll back into your head at times. Yawn.
❌ This reads like a memoir or a constant string of thought by whoever is narrating and sometimes this works but most of the time I found that jarring.
Something about this kind of book is intoxicating to me but I think it’s almost like hate watching a show you really don’t like to complain about it?
✅ This book challenges your perception of the characters as it goes along, you are meant to dislike almost all of them, but then there are moments where you empathise or you start to understand their approach. It’s very clever writing- if you like Sally Rooney I imagine you love this but that brings me on to why I didn’t…
❌ Respectfully, there’s no plot to this book. After Cleo and Frank meet (the chapters I did enjoy!) nothing happens except time passing. You see snippets of the side characters lives but nothing is developed. Quentin’s character is so interesting to begin with but nothing is explored and he hits cliche after cliche. Zoe’s foray into being a sugar baby was so short lived. Even Eleanor’s part to play was so minor.
❌ Cleo hits every trope of painful millennial artist it makes your eyes roll back into your head at times. Yawn.
❌ This reads like a memoir or a constant string of thought by whoever is narrating and sometimes this works but most of the time I found that jarring.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes