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2.78 AVERAGE
2.78 AVERAGE
The audiobook may have elevated it to a 3 for the way it’s read but as a whole I didn’t enjoy this. Glad I didn’t buy it
dark
funny
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
dark
medium-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
I generally enjoy Palahniuk's work but this one felt like a slog. Relied too much on shock value to be interesting. In fairness, I'm difficult to shock and not the ideal audience for it; this may be a delightful thrill for someone more accustomed to tamer reads.
dark
tense
medium-paced
Seeing that part two is about their dog... With these characters, I just can't.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Incest
dark
fast-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
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
Thanks to the author’s note I’ll now have to read this again. However, it won’t be anytime soon. Anything you can think of that may be shocking or off putting, is in this book. Like he included things just to mark them off some list. By the end I was like, of course there’s a nuke too. There wasn’t enough of a plot to hold all of it together. Like disjointed shockers just pinned together. I want to talk to someone about the book, I’ll hopefully find some podcasts about it, ‘cause there’s no way I’m going to ask someone in my life to read it.
dark
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
I read this while traveling (aka, while very sleep deprived), and I felt like I couldn't really tell if the author was trying to be homophobic or empowering. Either way, it's a horrible little story that I had a lot of fun reading. The childish narrator voice gets creepier and creepier as you go on through the book.
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated