jblanarik 's review for:

Everything Under by Daisy Johnson

3.0

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More like a 3.5/close 4. I can really appreciate the beauty of this book. The writing read poetically and was entrancing. A wonderful modernization of Oedipus, that makes you feel uncomfortable and uneasy. However, there were many parts I couldn’t figure out what was happening, or that I felt were unnecessary flouncy in their verbiage. I usually read a book in about 2-4 days and this took me about a month, because I wasn’t invested in most of the characters and wasn’t hard pressed to find out what was going to unfold. I didn’t hate it, but at the end of this year I don’t think I will remember much of it when I look back on all the tales I’ve read.