maddiearch 's review for:

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank

2.0

fast-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

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At this point I’m finishing this popsugar list on some sort of weird principle that started when I was 20. I’m very confused about this book. It’s depressing honestly. About a woman who dates shitty men, lives in New York, works in publishing, then advertising and seems generally unhappy with her life. I guess the whole point of it was to chronicle her relationships? I’m really not sure. A large part of the book is spent on her relationship with a man who is 28 years older than her. The relationship goes nowhere. We get one chapter where she glazes over getting breast cancer and being in a relationship with an unnamed man, which also doesn’t work out. Then we see her in the final chapter, trying to follow the advice of some cheesy self help relationship book. It’s actually kind of annoying because she has this internal dialogue with the two authors of the book, which doesn’t appear anywhere else in any of the other chapters. It’s like the author just threw together a bunch of fragments of thoughts. Anyway all this confirmed to me that living in New York is hell, dating in New York is hell, and you can be single and miserable in what I’m presuming are your late 30s while you work a job you hate, all in New York. I honestly don’t ever want to read a fucking book like this that takes place in New York. I’ve lived it. I don’t  need to read about it.