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A review by librovermo
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
2.0
Oh no. I put it off reading this book for months because I was worried I wouldn’t like it despite wanting to love it and unfortunately, I was right.
It started off strong. I’m a big fan of books with messy FMCs and Greta couldn’t be much messier. She’s also super weird and everyone and everything around her is also weird so I was like hell yeah this is all my jam. I loved that I was privy to Greta’s every unhinged thought because that made the book even funnier.
But as the book progressed, it felt like Greta was incapable of having a thought that wasn’t look-at-me-I’m-out-of-control levels of wacky. If she was descending into madness, I’d give it a pass, but she wasn’t, so it just started to feel like a gimmick that had very quickly run its course. I wasn’t laughing at things I knew were supposed to be funny. I found myself rolling my eyes. In short: I got tired of Greta’s shit.
Looking back on the book now, a few days later, I feel kind of… bored? Like, I knew I was bored while I was reading it but it wasn’t boring in the beginning so I kept going just in case it was a good bad sandwich, and sadly it was not.
It started off strong. I’m a big fan of books with messy FMCs and Greta couldn’t be much messier. She’s also super weird and everyone and everything around her is also weird so I was like hell yeah this is all my jam. I loved that I was privy to Greta’s every unhinged thought because that made the book even funnier.
But as the book progressed, it felt like Greta was incapable of having a thought that wasn’t look-at-me-I’m-out-of-control levels of wacky. If she was descending into madness, I’d give it a pass, but she wasn’t, so it just started to feel like a gimmick that had very quickly run its course. I wasn’t laughing at things I knew were supposed to be funny. I found myself rolling my eyes. In short: I got tired of Greta’s shit.
Looking back on the book now, a few days later, I feel kind of… bored? Like, I knew I was bored while I was reading it but it wasn’t boring in the beginning so I kept going just in case it was a good bad sandwich, and sadly it was not.