Marielle

Actually... 3 months on from forcing myself to finish this book. I cannot believe that I put myself through all 720 pages. This read like some kind of fucked up trauma-porn fanfiction: characters thrown around like dolls through the most unfortunate circumstances of life one second, and then made to kiss in their materially perfect lives the next.

Maybe that's the point and I simply don't get it, or don't like it. It felt pitying and unempathetic.

Starts off kind of promising and then devolves into a pile of self referential garbage. Couldn't wait for it to be over.

Equal parts entertaining and insufferable.

Super bingeable. At times cringe inducing in a good way. Other times painfully bad dialogue.

Want to give this a solid 3.5. The overall narrative and themes (authoritarianism, dystopia, 1984 etc etc etc) are well explored territory but this still felt like a fresh take. Something in the English translation felt a little too bluntly styled to me.