manikahemmerixh 's review for:

Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su

4.0

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Cheers to another weird girl lit fic. I found this one really easy to read because of the prose style, but challenging due to the actions of the MC Rachel. She’s second hand embarrassment’s worst nightmare (and yet, kind of okay because if she can get through relatively fine when she’s acting at her worst, maybe we should all be a little kinder to ourselves). I didn’t love the ending. I don’t mind the trajectory it was taking for Bob and Rachel’s story, but I do feel like it was a little flat compared to the rest of the book. I think that it could have gone weirder. It starts with an anthropomorphic blob entity and then trickles down in a way that didn’t feel equal. I think that that will make it lose some of its memorability for me as time passes.