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In at the Deep End
by Kate Davies
First of all, I’m the kind of person that is pleased by everything, so I NEVER give bad reviews. That should tell you what you need to know, but keep reading if you also hated this book and want to compare notes.
The potential love interests in this book (and there are several) are literally written like characters in a dating simulator - all one note with just a single quirky personality trait or interest. The main character has sex with a woman and wakes the next day to run around London letting everyone know she is now a lesbian. I have no idea how her friends put up with her, because her friends would be like “Julia would you like to have Turkish food for dinner?” And Julia would be like “sorry can’t do that I’m off to have sex with a woman because IM A LESBIAN NOW.” While I was paraphrasing, those might as well have been quotes from the book, because that is how the dialogue is written.
Other than my personal qualms with the writing style, the book is trying to get across some point about feminism and wokeness and failing miserably. Everything in this book is so problematic. Another review pointed out the toxic ways that sex was portrayed in this book, like the assertion that you can only "fuck" with penetration, the total lack of consent, and the uncomfortable BDSM. The main character also sees her therapist once every couple of chapters (which does nothing to further the plot), and the therapist is borderline abusive and mentally unstable herself. I hope that none of the people in my life who I am trying to convince to get therapy read this book, because this is not an accurate portrayal of the wonders of therapy.
Also this Julia character is lucky to have any friends, because she treated each of them like absolute dog shit. Only wanted their attention when her girlfriend wasn’t around, made every single conversation about her miserable life, and basically violated every emotional boundary possible then ditched them whenever possible to go continue ruining her own life. And her friends were more interesting and 3 dimensional than she was.
Overall this book is pretentious, unrelatable, and incredibly poorly written. This review became a bit more unhinged than was intended. Pick this up if you like erotica with far too many boring details.
The potential love interests in this book (and there are several) are literally written like characters in a dating simulator - all one note with just a single quirky personality trait or interest. The main character has sex with a woman and wakes the next day to run around London letting everyone know she is now a lesbian. I have no idea how her friends put up with her, because her friends would be like “Julia would you like to have Turkish food for dinner?” And Julia would be like “sorry can’t do that I’m off to have sex with a woman because IM A LESBIAN NOW.” While I was paraphrasing, those might as well have been quotes from the book, because that is how the dialogue is written.
Other than my personal qualms with the writing style, the book is trying to get across some point about feminism and wokeness and failing miserably. Everything in this book is so problematic. Another review pointed out the toxic ways that sex was portrayed in this book, like the assertion that you can only "fuck" with penetration, the total lack of consent, and the uncomfortable BDSM. The main character also sees her therapist once every couple of chapters (which does nothing to further the plot), and the therapist is borderline abusive and mentally unstable herself. I hope that none of the people in my life who I am trying to convince to get therapy read this book, because this is not an accurate portrayal of the wonders of therapy.
Also this Julia character is lucky to have any friends, because she treated each of them like absolute dog shit. Only wanted their attention when her girlfriend wasn’t around, made every single conversation about her miserable life, and basically violated every emotional boundary possible then ditched them whenever possible to go continue ruining her own life. And her friends were more interesting and 3 dimensional than she was.
Overall this book is pretentious, unrelatable, and incredibly poorly written. This review became a bit more unhinged than was intended. Pick this up if you like erotica with far too many boring details.