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

4.0

The moon fell into her window and woke her. Every morning at four a.m., a prehistoric sense of duty, danger, and approaching wolves told her to get up and check the fire. She did, and the fire of the world still burned in its circle of stones.

This novel is about a woman obsessed with the internet as real-life tragedy pulls her out of her online stupor.
At least that’s how it was sold to me online. I was surprised that the tragedy here went hand-in-hand with tenderness and joy. The second half of this book was a mixed bag of emotions that really worked for me. I smiled and I teared up, sometimes at the same time.
As powerful as some moments were, there were other moments where I felt out of the loop. Some paragraphs were incomprehensible to me, and the fragmented style made for a reading experience in stops and starts, the opposite of smooth. I also thought some of the language was overly complex and pretentious. The way Lockwood wrote about the internet sometimes worked for me, but other times just didn’t.
I enjoyed this a lot overall.