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A review by jessdone
The Remedy by Adam Haslett
2.0
Talk about missing the mark. This book is monotony personified. An experimental psychologist working out of a warehouse costing $20k a session seems like it would be right up my alley. There's a couple r/nosleep stories like this that I love. But the execution in this novel is completely lacking.
I don't care about this rich privileged narrator because we never really discuss what the heck is wrong with them, so they come off as a person I kind of think the world is better off without. Which means there's zero stakes.
Plus the set up of "secret experimental treatment" is well-worn territory and this story does nothing to stand out. The atmosphere is standard, the sessions are what you'd expect, and the narrator's response to everything is all giving off basic bitch energy.
It's not the worse thing in the series but it's not something I'd recommend.
I don't care about this rich privileged narrator because we never really discuss what the heck is wrong with them, so they come off as a person I kind of think the world is better off without. Which means there's zero stakes.
Plus the set up of "secret experimental treatment" is well-worn territory and this story does nothing to stand out. The atmosphere is standard, the sessions are what you'd expect, and the narrator's response to everything is all giving off basic bitch energy.
It's not the worse thing in the series but it's not something I'd recommend.