juniperbranches 's review for:

Supermarket by Bobby Hall

3.0

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Recommended to me by a friend, Supermarket is the story of a young writer who gets dumped by the love of his life after she gets tired of waiting for him to finish his book after several years of living in his mother’s basement. This break up triggers a such mental breakdown for Flynn, but a publishing house shows interest in an idea of his everything turns around for Flynn. Now contracted to write a novel about a supermarket, Flynn gets a job at the local market and starts his novel. 

I don’t think I would say that I particularly loved this. Flynn mostly feels like a very pathetic ‘poor me’ type, and I think he would drive me crazy as a human. However I will say that the novel takes a very sharp twist about halfway through that while predictable did help