A review by divineauthor
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

“It didn’t matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn’t heard us calling, still do not hear us.” —Chapter 5

i understand the subversiveness of boys’ flat voyeurism of the lisbon daughters are meant to be a view of the patriarchal structures that invade middle america and the shallowness of how men view women in general but, despite eugenides’ frankly beautiful prose, i don’t think a man can correctly do this without fully offending women as a whole lmao. though, it was interesting enough so yeah there’s my rating