micahebs 's review for:

Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz

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the cover, title, and the final 20 or so pages are by far the most compelling parts of Sex & Rage. unfortunately, the rest feels lacking in substance beyond being self-referential to Babitz. I don’t mind a plotless story so long as it’s well written, but I found the writing distractingly bad ?? and the characters frustratingly underdeveloped. my favorite moments came at the end, in Jacaranda’s conversations with Wini and Sonia in New York. these exchanges felt the most real and capture something particular about conversations and reflections among women. anyway this is definitely my harshest review to date, so my apologies to Eve, but this was just disappointing