A review by vivakresh
All Fours by Miranda July

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

3.0

Though I appreciate the subject matter, I didn’t appreciate the narrator as a character at all. Too many things just fell into her lap for this story to be relevant or relatable. Also other explanations besides hormones for the narrator’s behavior and mental state could easily have been at play. None of the secondary characters were fleshed out, except the two male love interests—what does this say about the author’s biases? In its favor, this novel moved fast, used language in interesting ways, and kept my attention throughout. 
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