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krystalfromvenus 's review for:
Careering
by Daisy Buchanan
i liked this more than i thought i would.
the first few chapters were almost unbearable, a clusterfuck of ridiculously predictable millennial buzzwords (i have never rolled my eyes harder than when stumbling upon the words “Tumblr” and “Glossier” and “Aesop soap” in a novel).
as the book progressed i felt my judgement soften a little, and i’ve now accepted Careering as a “guilty pleasure read”, which basically means that if i read this when i was 11 i would have thought it was the sexiest, wittiest book ever published.
i liked the characters, i exhaled out of my nose once or twice, and i liked the (spoiler alert) cheesy happy ending. it felt earned and it was refreshing to not feel worse after finishing a book than i did when i started.
i had no idea that so much of the novel would be centred around sex, but it didn’t feel forced or overdone. it actually managed to form some unique and interesting ideas about it, and forming new and interesting ideas about sex in 2022 is easier said than done.
my main takeaway from this book is that i think there’s just something about daisy buchanan that i enjoy. i could feel pieces of real, gritty wisdom hiding underneath the attempt to cater to the hashtag girlboss demographic, and i think with all the trendiness stripped away, buchanan could be a writer that i actually really love.
the first few chapters were almost unbearable, a clusterfuck of ridiculously predictable millennial buzzwords (i have never rolled my eyes harder than when stumbling upon the words “Tumblr” and “Glossier” and “Aesop soap” in a novel).
as the book progressed i felt my judgement soften a little, and i’ve now accepted Careering as a “guilty pleasure read”, which basically means that if i read this when i was 11 i would have thought it was the sexiest, wittiest book ever published.
i liked the characters, i exhaled out of my nose once or twice, and i liked the (spoiler alert) cheesy happy ending. it felt earned and it was refreshing to not feel worse after finishing a book than i did when i started.
i had no idea that so much of the novel would be centred around sex, but it didn’t feel forced or overdone. it actually managed to form some unique and interesting ideas about it, and forming new and interesting ideas about sex in 2022 is easier said than done.
my main takeaway from this book is that i think there’s just something about daisy buchanan that i enjoy. i could feel pieces of real, gritty wisdom hiding underneath the attempt to cater to the hashtag girlboss demographic, and i think with all the trendiness stripped away, buchanan could be a writer that i actually really love.