mtherobot 's review for:

Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

2.5

adventurous reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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 An okay story weighed down under some very ineffective story telling choices. Leah and Bernie were both interesting characters, well-formed and complex, and I was interested in them and their relationships with the other characters in the story, though I'm not sure I really understood their draw to each other. Unfortunately, that was the only aspect of this novel that I did enjoy -- the writing itself was clunky, the narrative chronology was not totally sensible, and the choice to tell the story through the semi-omniscient (?) POV of an unrelated character was very odd and did not, in my opinion, pay off. Some of these choices could work in a shorter piece, or if the story was overall compelling enough to either overcome or justify them, but the character work alone did not carry it for me.

thnx netgalley tho <333