anastasiarodgie 's review for:

Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
4.0

Ok, it's weird, it's raw, and it's king of real. In the nicest way possible it makes elder people human and emotional and fucked up. Vladimir was just such a pinnacle character to compare the other characters to, a bit of reality, a breath of fresh air from the obsessive and strange and fantastic elder woman. Then he goes fucking wierd amd that just shows how wierd reality is and the secrets. Then she fucking kidnaps him, quick break, love how she describes books and knows how to talk to people and regurgitate what the want to hear, yeah, kidnapping, where the fuck did that come from, fuck knows, but ok. It's not ok, but then he thought it was ok kind of. It just shows academics and older people on a different and obsessive light, it's interesting and real to see those people are fucked up. The obsession isn't more obsessive, for me, its just her witty but sensitive in an obscure way self getting through life as a failed writer, wife, mother, and how that doesn't effect her