ruthnessly 's review for:

Snowflake by Louise Nealon

5.0

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i REALLY loved this and i think i'll love it more when i reread it in a couple years from now. i loved the narrative voice and the use of language in this. i loooved the atmosphere and setting invoked & how real and lively everything and everybody was. there's a lot of complexity here, but i think the language used to evoke it is SO! BEAUTIFUL! sometimes, i fear that that makes it sound like it's pretentious but this book just isn't. i think it's so irish & lovely & interested in madness and mental health. this is so well written and it's so propulsive too? i feel like i flew through about 300 pages in the last couple hours. it's so witty and fresh and complicated and full of depth of feeling. so fucking lovely. i wish she had a whole stack of books i could devour bc i would