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A review by lukeass
Rabbit Hole by Kate Brody
2.5
urghhhhhhh. I really, really wanted to love this.
In theory, I'm a really big fan of the deep, introspective character study and the deep dive into Teddy's life and her family and her memories of childhood events and how they change as she ages and looks back on them. However. For being marketed as a reddit thriller, I expected more than the pages upon pages of Teddy's dying dog and the bad sex she's having. It is, in fact, not a thriller at all, but rather a story of a grown woman glomming onto a teenage girl that reminds her of her dead sister and being overall pretty weird to her and just about everyone she knows.
The actual mystery focuses on ominous reddit posts and threats teddy starts to receive after her father's death and it's pretty evident within the first quarter of the book who is doing it. No spoilers but... IYKYK and it's such a disappointment (IMO).
In the end I just felt disappointed by the lack of utilization of Reddit and the many actual true crime rabbit holes that the internet has been involved in (Don't Fuck With Cats comes to mind). This just felt like a poor use of a theme that the author clearly wanted to commentate on, but just came across feeling like a cheap imitation that held no real substance.
Also, can second every comment saying the dog death/cancer just felt cruel and unnecessary.
In theory, I'm a really big fan of the deep, introspective character study and the deep dive into Teddy's life and her family and her memories of childhood events and how they change as she ages and looks back on them. However. For being marketed as a reddit thriller, I expected more than the pages upon pages of Teddy's dying dog and the bad sex she's having. It is, in fact, not a thriller at all, but rather a story of a grown woman glomming onto a teenage girl that reminds her of her dead sister and being overall pretty weird to her and just about everyone she knows.
The actual mystery focuses on ominous reddit posts and threats teddy starts to receive after her father's death and it's pretty evident within the first quarter of the book who is doing it. No spoilers but... IYKYK and it's such a disappointment (IMO).
In the end I just felt disappointed by the lack of utilization of Reddit and the many actual true crime rabbit holes that the internet has been involved in (Don't Fuck With Cats comes to mind). This just felt like a poor use of a theme that the author clearly wanted to commentate on, but just came across feeling like a cheap imitation that held no real substance.
Also, can second every comment saying the dog death/cancer just felt cruel and unnecessary.