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A review by emilycc
Stay Up with Hugo Best by Erin Somers
4.0
I haven’t read a ton of reviews of this book, but I imagine the term “millennial malaise” or maybe “millennial ennui” gets used in a lot of them. It felt very generational to me, in that looks at a certain kind of coming of age. What happens when your whole life, you’re told you can do anything, and then you get to the point of doing the thing you wanted to do and it turns out you’re only pretty fine at it, and pretty fine isn’t good enough? It feels like a new take on the midlife crisis of lots of “Great American novels” - the quarter life of crisis of having been told, over and over and over again, that you can do anything and then realizing as an adult that that’s really not the case.
Anyway, this has a lot of great specificity to it that made it fun to read. If you like character-driven stuff and don’t mind characters that are mostly not that likable and/or make bad choices, you might like this. You don’t have to be a comedy person to get it, and I don’t know how accurate the comedy stuff really is, although I thought it was interesting.
Anyway, this has a lot of great specificity to it that made it fun to read. If you like character-driven stuff and don’t mind characters that are mostly not that likable and/or make bad choices, you might like this. You don’t have to be a comedy person to get it, and I don’t know how accurate the comedy stuff really is, although I thought it was interesting.