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heyfeyrey 's review for:
The Celebrants
by Steven Rowley
It really just ate my whole review like that.
Fine. In short, the book should have hit all the right notes for me: queer themes, found family, characters reuniting in middle age. But it dragged at points, there was a lot of constant SCREAMING IN ALL CAPS, and it's really hard to believe that these people would still be haunted 25 years later by the death of someone who they knew for a few years and mostly seemed like a dick.
Also, for as much shit as Marielle gives the other characters (especially Jordy), her secret was actually un-fucking-forgivable, yet the novel (and thus the characters) give her a huge pass for shittiness.
Toward the end, I started skimming some of the longer passages, ready for it to be over. But I really wanted to like this a lot more than I did.
Fine. In short, the book should have hit all the right notes for me: queer themes, found family, characters reuniting in middle age. But it dragged at points, there was a lot of constant SCREAMING IN ALL CAPS, and it's really hard to believe that these people would still be haunted 25 years later by the death of someone who they knew for a few years and mostly seemed like a dick.
Also, for as much shit as Marielle gives the other characters (especially Jordy), her secret was actually un-fucking-forgivable, yet the novel (and thus the characters) give her a huge pass for shittiness.
Toward the end, I started skimming some of the longer passages, ready for it to be over. But I really wanted to like this a lot more than I did.