A review by scharocket
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

tense medium-paced

1.0

The amount of times genitalia or sexualization of literally anything is mentioned is ridiculous....Just gross. It reads like a horny teenager who thinks he’s "saying something" wrote this. And what that something is? I'm not sure. Whatever theme it was trying to hit, it just didn't give me enough ENOUGH to show me any actual conviction. For one moment, I think, there was commentary on climate change? Another time, it was commentary on racism (maybe?) and how people treat each other in times of crisis (possibly?)

All leading up to an ending that was no ending at all, just a lazy stoppage of 240 pages of stream-of-consciousness writing.

I had the urge to DNF at about page 16, after one particularly grotesque description of a character's genitals, but CERTAINLY not the last one.

I should listen to my DNF instincts more.
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