A review by faeriviera
Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen

adventurous dark funny slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

This book had been hyped up to me, and from how it's advertised and the cover, I was thinking "Oh, so it's almost like a lesbian version of King Kong with a smattering of satire about reality TV, sounds like fun!" but while it definitely has quite a bit of satire at the beginning, things get, pardon the pun, hairy, and not in the fun way. 

The problem for me was I wasn't sure how I was supposed to feel about the violence happening to a good chunk of the characters by the end, and the choice one particular character makes regarding it. Is this supposed to be horrifying, am I supposed to root for it because it's happening to bad people? It'd be one thing if the author was making it ambiguous on purpose, but it more or less felt more like a tone problem than anything else. I just don't get why all of these women decided they're perfectly okay with letting Patricia kill a bunch of people. The idea that all of these women are outsiders that are being screwed over should've been much more prevalent if the author wanted us to root for the ending, because while Patricia's victims are flawed I wouldn't say I felt like they deserved the fates they got, especially since even the raging homophobe started to show some humanity before her gruesome end.
Expand filter menu Content Warnings