Ratings6
Average rating3.5
I love an unlikeable main character, Helen is gross. I mean she's gross in an Ottessa Moshfegh way. I don't understand her, but I wanted to learn her story. The thing is, two really terrible somethings happened in Helen's family and now she is trying to have a polyamorous relationship with a set of wives and Helen cannot get her act together.
My empathy for Helen quickly wore out. I also learned not to eat while reading this. And my idea of dating is not to get on the date and then act sick the entire time (but to each her own).
That said, I couldn't get into this not because of the subject matter but because of the writing style which is all over the place and that is made even worse by not using quotation marks so the reader cannot tell someone is actually speaking or just speaking in Helen's head or what. I'm getting the eye twitch just describing this. The struggle is real.
I will say this, it's a 3 star read and not a DNF because I really though Helen's relationship with her grandmom was adorable.
Also, I hung in there waiting for some kind of justice or even, really, an ending. Like quotation marks, the author chose to omit that as well.