efenstermaker 's review for:

Animals Eat Each Other by Elle Nash

2.0

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This is going to be a 1.5 stars from me. It was unfortunate to read this book back to back with "Exalted" because both of them ooze a specific type of hedonistic, nihilistic ennui that I quite frankly find exhausting right now. Our unnamed narrator fucks every person in her orbit, points out that she's 98 lbs and loves the feeling of her hip bones, muses about her love of sex coming from needing to be wanted, talks endlessly of her Daddy Issues(TM) and abruptly gets obsessed with the supremely average dude in her 3-way relationship (after seeming far more invested in Frances?? Where did this come from?) There were a million references to how dark and twisted and shocking "Lilith's" relationship with Matt and Frankie was, but few specifics, and the pacing of the book felt jarring. I could never track how Lilith's feelings were growing over the course of this mostly aimless and (to me) emotionally empty novel.