A review by hannahs_library__
Green Dot by Madeleine Gray

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

 Illicit Affairs (angry version) + Full Machine by Gracie Abrams = Green Dot 🟢

Read this if you like:
- All character, no plot
- Sad lit fic
- Age gap
- Toxic situationships
- Character development
- Sarcastic, cynical writing

Fresh out of school with her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, 24 year old Hera is entering “the real world” for the first time. As she navigates the corporate world she is quickly swept up in an office romance with a man who is married and almost twice her age… ✨

If you don’t like cynical, sarcastic lit-fic writing, this might not be for you but if you do, you NEED to read this book!! This is not for everybody. I’d say, if you’re less than 30% cynical, I can almost guarantee that you won’t like this. Madeleine’s writing is incredible but optimistically cynical. (That makes sense in my head I swear.)

I loved this book so much that I annotated. I NEVER do that! 🤯 How was she able to take thoughts I've had in the deep, dark depths of my mind and form them into perfectly coherent literature?! I had so many epiphany moments while reading this book where I would read a sentence that perfectly described a morsel of a thought that I had never been able to fully formulate or explain. Even now, looking back through my highlights, I want to reread the entire book.

“I was the first girl Max had met who understood his cinematic references. Max was the first boy I'd met who seemed genuinely interested in what I had to say.”

Hera is definitely a mirrorball girl, she’s so introspective and self-aware. I adore her.

I will be honest, part 1 was hard to get into. I had to get used to the dark, sarcastic tone but once I did… absolutely hooked. 🎣 I found myself rooting for Hera and completely invested in the story. Even now, a few months later, I still think about this book all the time.

Highly recommend this to all the lit fic, all character-no plot girlies :) thank you sooo much to Holt for an early copy!
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