Review by koreeee - Diary of an Oxygen Thief

koreeee 's review for:

Diary of an Oxygen Thief by

1.25

dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The book is more enjoyable when he stops trying to explain any of his thoughts, which I guess is antithetical to the "diary” format of the story.

He slogs on for the first chap about his "conquests” of women’s hearts and the ways in which he damaged them in an attempt to seem reflective over his destructive and alcoholic past, but he (who presumably is writing all of this in one go) still speaks as if he is proud of these actions in some way. The climax of the story happens five pages from the end after being repeatedly mentioned and referenced throughout the first 100 pages and is wholly unsatisfying because the perspective we see it from has no clue what is happening in any sense.

This is a man who knows he deserves everything that happened to him and still refuses to leave it alone.

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