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A review by aimawaymessage
Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados
3.0
Thank you Verso Books for providing an ARC!
This novel is a straightforward, direct collection of diary entries that follow our main characters, Isa and Gala, throughout their first summer after moving to New York.
A string of quotable observations and conversations, Happy Hour is filled with Isa's commentary on the people around her as she jumps from elite parties to bad dates with stuck-up New York boys to working odd jobs for rent money. While some dialogue is interesting and fast-paced, about a third of the way through I felt myself losing interest and was worried this might be a DNF.
This is kind of like reading a very long tumblr post from an art girl in 2014, which isn't a bad thing but also doesn't feel fully genuine to me; I can definitely see why maybe a younger audience would really connect with this, but I didn't vibe with it as much as I hoped.
https://www.aimawaymessage.online/
This novel is a straightforward, direct collection of diary entries that follow our main characters, Isa and Gala, throughout their first summer after moving to New York.
A string of quotable observations and conversations, Happy Hour is filled with Isa's commentary on the people around her as she jumps from elite parties to bad dates with stuck-up New York boys to working odd jobs for rent money. While some dialogue is interesting and fast-paced, about a third of the way through I felt myself losing interest and was worried this might be a DNF.
This is kind of like reading a very long tumblr post from an art girl in 2014, which isn't a bad thing but also doesn't feel fully genuine to me; I can definitely see why maybe a younger audience would really connect with this, but I didn't vibe with it as much as I hoped.
https://www.aimawaymessage.online/