A review by gadicohen93
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn

4.0

A perfect tragicomic specimen, alternating between the shock of child abuse (and other afflictions) and the shock of the author finding humor in the context of such woes. As far as style goes, St. Aubyn writes perfectly. I don’t remember the last time I audibly gasped, giggled involuntarily, hungrily sipped on sentence after blinding sentence of sharp, cerebral, caustic and deeply wise language. The characters are deeply fleshed out, and agonizingly flawed. In spots, I would get lost in the soliloquies, the philosophical inquiries, the endless point of view ping-ponging -- most especially in the last book, which was the least interesting. And yet even so, everything about it was marvelously constructed.