A review by valereads
Pulp by Robin Talley

emotional hopeful medium-paced
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This book follows two different perspectives, that of Janet Jones a teenage girl in the 1950s and that of Abbey Zimet a teenage girl in 2019. It follows these two girls as they discover lesbian pulp fiction and each try to write a lesbian pulp novel. The two characters voices and worldviews were distinct and both were enjoyable, unfortunately the historical story was much more interesting for me than the contemporary one where little seemed to happen.

I was also very disappointed in the ending.

I gave this book 4 stars when I first read it because of how it affected me emotionally however overall this book was disappointing and I'm not sure I'm going to keep it on my shelves.

Content Warnings: homophobia, racism, divorce, outing
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