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A review by melbsreads
The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa
3.0
Trigger warnings: murder, violence, blackmail, cheating ohgod so much cheating.
2.5 stars.
I bought this based on the blurb and the fact that it's translated from Spanish - gotta tick those yearly goals, yo. Buuuuuut this book was kind of bonkers. It's set in Peru during the 90s, and it's equal parts best friends ending up in a F/F affair and political corruption drama???? Like...??????? I don't even know how those two things go together, tbh.
The political corruption side of things was actually pretty intriguing. But the whole affair thing was...bizarre and weird and the sex scenes were horrrrrrrrrrrible and cringeworthy and just the actual worst. Add in the fact that there is basically no overlap between the affair subplot and the corruption subplot and I just...WHY WAS THE AFFAIR SUBPLOT EVEN THERE????? So...yeah, no.
2.5 stars.
I bought this based on the blurb and the fact that it's translated from Spanish - gotta tick those yearly goals, yo. Buuuuuut this book was kind of bonkers. It's set in Peru during the 90s, and it's equal parts best friends ending up in a F/F affair and political corruption drama???? Like...??????? I don't even know how those two things go together, tbh.
The political corruption side of things was actually pretty intriguing. But the whole affair thing was...bizarre and weird and the sex scenes were horrrrrrrrrrrible and cringeworthy and just the actual worst. Add in the fact that there is basically no overlap between the affair subplot and the corruption subplot and I just...WHY WAS THE AFFAIR SUBPLOT EVEN THERE????? So...yeah, no.