A review by elisefarmer
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North

2.0

This wasn't good. I can't really fathom why everyone raved about it so much when it came out. All of the characters' narrative styles sounded exactly the same - if you picked a paragraph at random it could feasibly have come from Robbie, Allison or Jacob's point of view - none of their linguistic styles felt distinct from one another, and all of them sounded like a 25 year old Tumblr girl. The ending was underwhelming, the main character entirely unlikeable, and the only clever thing about it was the film reviews interspersed between chapters which all sewed together to become a cohesive arc at the end.