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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
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.
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
challenging
dark
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
dark
funny
medium-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
Between 4 and 4.5 stars. One of the weirdest books I’ve ever read, but I also can’t stop thinking about it. One of the most creative plots I’ve read. Looking forward to the show adaptation!
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3,5⭐️ This was a lot. Awful therapist, partially hilarious, too much house, bees and dog talk, weird, wild, inappropriate, kinda funn, tmi. Listened to the audiobook and really enjoyed Om's and Greta's narrators. The chapters were still way too long for my liking and I didn‘t care for Greta‘s past, it was kinda uninteresting.