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A review by literarycrushes
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
2.0
The opening premise for Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler was unique and intriguing: an unnamed young woman finds out her boyfriend has been secretly running an Instagram account full of conspiracy theories and pro-Trump propaganda. Unfortunately, this storyline was pretty quickly cast aside (I don’t want to give spoilers, but it is picked up again only in the last few pages of the book) in favor of the main character’s decision to leave her life in New York and move to Berlin.
I was into the book for the first 50 or so pages, but lost interest that was never regained towards the middle of the book. The main character is (purposefully, I think) incredibly narcissistic and self-introspective. She often has funny and insightful comments about what it’s like to be a rudderless millennial (especially one living abroad), but these were often painfully drawn out where points that could have been proven in a sentence or two were drawn out into pages and pages of stream-of-conscious thoughts. She definitely had things to say about social media and how our lives are essentially dictated by it, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend reading it for 272 pages.
I was into the book for the first 50 or so pages, but lost interest that was never regained towards the middle of the book. The main character is (purposefully, I think) incredibly narcissistic and self-introspective. She often has funny and insightful comments about what it’s like to be a rudderless millennial (especially one living abroad), but these were often painfully drawn out where points that could have been proven in a sentence or two were drawn out into pages and pages of stream-of-conscious thoughts. She definitely had things to say about social media and how our lives are essentially dictated by it, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend reading it for 272 pages.