A review by heamarhar
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

3.0

Overall I think this was 90% a good book. However... The ending came so suddenly and fell so flat that I am appalled at all of the rave reviews. Sure, not every book has to have a crazy wild ending, but I think readers deserved a lot more after trudging through so many pages of fluff and imagined scenarios. This felt like a mess of ideas. There were some things I enjoyed about the nuance of cancel culture and how people act differently when you or someone you care about is under the magnifying glass, but most of the time I felt like the author was stating the obvious and pretending it was all brand new. I found Bodie to be a boring, self-centered, manipulative, try-hard, verging on being your average white feminist. Her backstory wasn't fleshed out enough for me to care about her as deeply as the author wanted me to. We get tidbits about her past, but she felt like more like a rough draft than a real main character. I expected a lot more from this book than I was given. :(