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rollotreadway 's review for:
Providence
by Caroline Kepnes
Firstly, have to get this out of the way: this book's attitude to autistic people is deeply unpleasant, although I presume from honest ignorance rather than cruelty. There are a great many autistic people out there - including me - who have to deal with being treated as some kind of subhuman disease in real life; finding these lazy and immensely harmful prejudices used to build a character flaw in a novel, that we can really do without.
Beyond that, oh, I don't know. Plot holes bigger than New Hampshire (whoever knew that delivering papers paid so well?), constant assumptions that everyone will understand the myriad references (although maybe anyone devoted to both Lovecraft and the low-rent end of the Adam Sandler oeuvre might find something to like here), and some very tired and unpleasant tropes about how unfair it is that the manic pixie dream girl is wooed by the handsome bad boy instead of the nice nerdy one (and hey, incels can still be superheroes, I guess?)
But I'm feeling generous, and it was snappily written and not too long, so have two stars.
Beyond that, oh, I don't know. Plot holes bigger than New Hampshire (whoever knew that delivering papers paid so well?), constant assumptions that everyone will understand the myriad references (although maybe anyone devoted to both Lovecraft and the low-rent end of the Adam Sandler oeuvre might find something to like here), and some very tired and unpleasant tropes about how unfair it is that the manic pixie dream girl is wooed by the handsome bad boy instead of the nice nerdy one (and hey, incels can still be superheroes, I guess?)
But I'm feeling generous, and it was snappily written and not too long, so have two stars.