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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
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
Going into this book, I thought it'd be weird and funny. I was wrong. It was weird and very, very sad.
dark
emotional
sad
slow-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 can think of more wasteful ways to spend your lottery money than LARPing to avoid PTSD.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Medical trauma
maybe the most contrived premise in literary history, but i can’t be mad because i so thoroughly enjoyed the story. could’ve done with more rita
I’m still thinking about this book. I read it a month ago. It was like nothing I’ve ever read before.
dark
sad
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
emotional
sad
Sad. NOT funny. But DESERVES four stars. I finished it BECAUSE it was well written, but I would not have read it had I known what was coming.
Some of the blurbs at the beginning of One's Company called it a Black Comedy. I did not laugh once. In fairness, the novel is well written, hangs together, has some great characters and Bonnie Lincoln and how she proceeds when she wins a bazillion dollar lottery is amazingly wrought. But it is a sad, introspective book about a very damaged woman who needs to live as a character in Three's Company to survive. Bonnie is a woman in her early twenties who has only ever had exactly one friend. Both her parents are dead and you would not call her family one that was memorable in a good way. She's recently gone through a horrible trauma, coming out of a situation as the only survivor-- if you want to call it survival.
Somehow, the old sitcom, Three's Company, comforts her and she becomes obsessed. When she wins the biggest lottery ever, Bonnie creates an alternate world for herself of the Three's Company set and sets things up so that she will live alone there and be one of the characters from the show each year, moving from apartment to apartment, but always existing in the 1970s.. We already know the concept of this novel going in. It's in the blurbs. Personally, the best thing about the book, is what I THOUGHT it was going to be. Something light and silly and a little pathetic but in a way that doesn't make you curl up in pain. Well done. Wish I had not read it.
Some of the blurbs at the beginning of One's Company called it a Black Comedy. I did not laugh once. In fairness, the novel is well written, hangs together, has some great characters and Bonnie Lincoln and how she proceeds when she wins a bazillion dollar lottery is amazingly wrought. But it is a sad, introspective book about a very damaged woman who needs to live as a character in Three's Company to survive. Bonnie is a woman in her early twenties who has only ever had exactly one friend. Both her parents are dead and you would not call her family one that was memorable in a good way. She's recently gone through a horrible trauma, coming out of a situation as the only survivor-- if you want to call it survival.
Somehow, the old sitcom, Three's Company, comforts her and she becomes obsessed. When she wins the biggest lottery ever, Bonnie creates an alternate world for herself of the Three's Company set and sets things up so that she will live alone there and be one of the characters from the show each year, moving from apartment to apartment, but always existing in the 1970s.. We already know the concept of this novel going in. It's in the blurbs. Personally, the best thing about the book, is what I THOUGHT it was going to be. Something light and silly and a little pathetic but in a way that doesn't make you curl up in pain. Well done. Wish I had not read it.
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
DNF
Overly detailed descriptions that were just too much. Bonnie was a boring but damaged girl and didn’t love the premise.
Overly detailed descriptions that were just too much. Bonnie was a boring but damaged girl and didn’t love the premise.