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A review by josephine_renee
Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett Daylight
2.0
I went into this wrong, thinking it would be a novel about 6 teens and the plot would overlap and come together and it would all make sense in the end. It's rather an anthology of short stories. Which don't overlap other than in it's uncomfortable theme, of which the book should be named after, something more like 6 stupid people, or what not to do in bedrooms, or 6 ways you shouldn't loose your virginity/6 obvious walking red flag men not to have sex with (example, your boyfriend's brother?). I think I disliked it because, although it has wonderful prose, the characters didn't change at all, and if they where realising anything, it didn't show it in action.
Perhaps it's supposed to show how 'kids acting like adults, and wanting to grow up faster' cannot be more stupid, or that dumb decisions can set the tone of the rest of your life.???
I absolutely adored The Details, so I don't think I should have read it expecting something like the collection of Tegan Bennett Daylights short personal essays either.
It just felt like I was left hanging with all of their stories, like it would tell me that Tasha's friends brother and father were both sleeping with the maid and that was her job (disgusting), then at the end just randomly say they hadn't been having sex with the maid and it wasn't her job. ????
I'm probably missing something. And it was an interesting read, but if you haven't, read The Details On Love, Death and Reading instead, absolutely masterful!
Perhaps it's supposed to show how 'kids acting like adults, and wanting to grow up faster' cannot be more stupid, or that dumb decisions can set the tone of the rest of your life.???
I absolutely adored The Details, so I don't think I should have read it expecting something like the collection of Tegan Bennett Daylights short personal essays either.
It just felt like I was left hanging with all of their stories, like it would tell me that Tasha's friends brother and father were both sleeping with the maid and that was her job (disgusting), then at the end just randomly say they hadn't been having sex with the maid and it wasn't her job. ????
I'm probably missing something. And it was an interesting read, but if you haven't, read The Details On Love, Death and Reading instead, absolutely masterful!