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Side Effects May Vary
by Julie Murphy
I’ll be straight with you. Contemporary is not my favorite genre. With that said, if I am going to read a contemporary novel it means I think there is a strong chance that I will really like it. Side Effects May Vary left me confused, disturbed, irritated, depressed, and angry in turns. I was so bewildered by this story that I am convinced that I simply must have missed the entire point of it. There just has to be something I’m not understanding here. Why would I want to read a book about terrible people, who are terrible to each other, and who exhibit extremely minimal amounts of personal growth throughout? Truly, I do not understand.
Perhaps this is my fault. I thought the sort of repercussions Alice would be dealing with would be things like telling someone you love them because time has run out only to discover that it hasn’t. Now the consequences of those words must be faced. What do you do when you could love someone while dying but are completely unsure of how to live with it? That would be an interesting story. And it is addressed here, a little. Unfortunately, it is far overshadowed by the maliciousness of Alice’s other deeds. I was chilled by how unexpectedly grim this story is. I was chilled by how unexpectedly grim this story is.
Find the rest of my review at The Midnight Garden.
Perhaps this is my fault. I thought the sort of repercussions Alice would be dealing with would be things like telling someone you love them because time has run out only to discover that it hasn’t. Now the consequences of those words must be faced. What do you do when you could love someone while dying but are completely unsure of how to live with it? That would be an interesting story. And it is addressed here, a little. Unfortunately, it is far overshadowed by the maliciousness of Alice’s other deeds. I was chilled by how unexpectedly grim this story is. I was chilled by how unexpectedly grim this story is.
Find the rest of my review at The Midnight Garden.