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Sex & Rage

Eve Babitz

3.61 AVERAGE


Rip Jacaranda you would've loved 1989, especially Clean and Welcome to New York.

This is the story of a girl who gets wrapped up in a bizarre toxic friendship with severe sexual tension (but they keep saying he is gay??? We have no evidence of this? Then, she says maybe he is ace? idk it doesn't really make sense but he definitely is the worst dude ever either way). It gets so bad that she has to go to New York to get it out of her system. Honestly, the title should be switched from "Sex and Rage" to "Ennui and Alcoholism". Black Swans was way more fun so just read that instead.
adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

honestly not much sex and even less rage 

tildagustafsson's review

4.0
funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional hopeful relaxing fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
funny reflective relaxing fast-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
challenging emotional reflective 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

don’t be fooled with how long it took me to finish this i really enjoyed it!!! sometimes when i see myself too much in a character i have to take a pause and come back to it and i’m very glad i came back cause this was beautiful
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
slow-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
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hannahcg's review

3.0

every time i've read a babitz book, i've felt as if there is something lacking from her writing style that results in me just being bored as i'm reading, despite the plot being interesting.