nattymcd 's review for:

Every Exquisite Thing by Matthew Quick
3.0

I did enjoy this, but towards the end, I found Nanette to be annoying and her attitude quite grating.

Surely, being ourselves is important, but there is nothing wrong with occasionally doing things for other people--it seemed to me that Nanette really needed to find that balance. I couldn't help but agree when people called her selfish--her sense of self-importance had simply become too much for me to bear.

Maybe I'm too far away from that teenaged self I used to be, but I found myself rolling my eyes at Nanette quite a lot near the end.

I'll give it three stars because it's a fast read and an interesting concept, but it's difficult for me to praise a book that had me finding the main character completely disingenuous.