A review by samarakroeger
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

this book is timely and prescient (in part two, please don't give up on it).  I had no idea what the second half of the book was going to be about, just that it was a novel in two parts.  Unlike some other books I've read this year where the first 80-100 pages are confusing and don't make sense (ahem, Piranesi), I actually found the internet references in the first half weirdly comforting and I flew through it.  I'd primarily recommend this for children of the 90s who spent the 2010s online.  This is a book about the internet written by someone who clearly has spent a lot of time online and has mixed feelings about it.  This level of nuance is missing from most books discussing the internet, which are often quite anti- or quite pro-social media.
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