A review by warmreapertea
The Inverts by Crystal Jeans

2.0

While I can see where most of the bad reviews are coming from, and agree with a lot of their arguments, I also think they exaggerate here and there. Most of this book was fine, but I think it's the last 100 pages which were poorly done. There's also the author's 'crude' style which seems akin to that British realism which I've seen before, and am not particularly fond of. Could this have done with less gross and judging descriptions? Certainly. Does this author have certain fixations which, especially in the last bit, become a bit obnoxious? Yes. Were the characters despicable? Yeah, but I don't think a character needs to be likable to be a good character. I didn't hate reading about them, and I didn't think this book was that badly written (aside from the aforementioned crude writing). Just think it's a shame that the plot idea wasn't worked out to its full potential.