A review by wviellevoye
Real Life by Brandon Taylor

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

3.75

I struggled with this book, not while reading it but after I put it down. In the first pages I was afraid it was going to be a copy of A Little Life, which seriously impressed me, but I didn’t want to read a retelling. It developed in sort of a similar story but told completely different. At the end I didn’t get a feeling of closure, which left me a bit disappointed. Another problem for me is that I got seriously annoyed with Wallace’s attitude to life.
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