A review by kiyahisfiyah
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

4.0

took me a minute to read just because i was reading like 3 different things and also school work but i did enjoy the book. obviously this isn’t supposed to be in the perspective of the girls and i love that we didn’t know a lot about what was happening inside the house. it kinda kept you guessing what was actually happening like why were these girls ? like this why were the parents like this ? yk like the conversations the sisters would have amongst themselves what were they about? and things of that nature. seriously though if the book was in the girls perspective idk how well the author would’ve been able to show them.

also if you think about it this entire book is mostly speculation based on observations so we’ll never know the result truth of the events. the interviews everyone views interactions differently so who’s to say if that’s what really happened between the girls and those boys. how do we know they are telling the truth? this book just raised a lot of questions for me in terms of depression and anxiety and mental health all around.

spolier but i mean not really it’s in the title

when they all kill themselves in a specific way i wonder why they choose those ways like why would you choose to stick your head in an oven or hang yourself why not just take a bunch of pills it’s easy smoother less hurt but like maybe they wanted to hurt themselves they wanted to feel the pain of death … that was kinda okay i’m done now