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A review by msjoanna
Informers, The by Bret Easton Ellis, Thérèse Plummer
3.0
I would classify this as a collection of interlinked short stories more than a novel. That said, the pieces fit together quite neatly it made the collection greater than a sum of its parts to have the links.
The narrators for the audiobook were average. They read the stories competently but weren't especially compelling and occasionally slipped into voices too whiney even for the insipid valley-girl characters that populate the stories. They did manage to convey the general apathy of the characters.
Overall, I'm just not a huge Bret Easton Ellis fan. I understand that he's capturing a slice of moral decline and narcissistic wandering overprivileged drugged out characters. But I find it hard to care at all what happens to any of them. When one of them turns serial killer (American Psycho) or vampire (this book), I end up yawning.
The narrators for the audiobook were average. They read the stories competently but weren't especially compelling and occasionally slipped into voices too whiney even for the insipid valley-girl characters that populate the stories. They did manage to convey the general apathy of the characters.
Overall, I'm just not a huge Bret Easton Ellis fan. I understand that he's capturing a slice of moral decline and narcissistic wandering overprivileged drugged out characters. But I find it hard to care at all what happens to any of them. When one of them turns serial killer (American Psycho) or vampire (this book), I end up yawning.