A review by neenthefiend
Your Love Is Not Good by Johanna Hedva

3.0

The cadence of the prose can be a bit inaccessible when starting the reading journey, but as you travel further you pick up hedva’s rhythm. It was so incredibly stressful. I can’t tell if it’s good or just unnervingly impactful and whether that profundity is necessary which I guess is the whole point? Slippery profundity? This made me feel grateful for my daddy issues because I don’t think I could bear the weight of mommy issues. I also have some new 50 cent words in my pocket now. I wasn’t going to buy my own copy but after reading…. It stuck with me. Particularly the slow descent into madness that dawns once she reaches Berlin. I read through this the first time to get the larger plot and arguments but I suspect upon a more tactically second read mechanisms of the writing process and meticulous construction will be elucidated.