A review by itsneira
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.75

Personally, I found this book trying a little TOO hard to be dark and edgy. Although some of the descriptions of mental illness are reflective of that headspace, this book didn’t add any kind of new insight on the topic. There was no character development (besides partial recovery from an ED), which is partially the point of the book, but adds to its mid-ness. Every page was about a miserable girl complaining about her bad relationship with her mother, with food, with Judaism, with her sexuality…..the list only gets longer. Great for those who love insufferable characters, but I saw it pitched as this world-defining, jaw-dropping experience of self-discovery. Truly, the only new understanding I gained from reading this is learning that Twizzlers are kosher. Not every book has to be insightful and ground-breaking, but that’s what this book tried to do and failed at, which is unfortunate because I quite enjoyed the actual writing and narration style (aside from the very vivid sexual descriptions that admittedly did provide a lot of characterization but were a little TOO uncomfortable for their intended purpose). All in all, nothing special and probably very triggering. 
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