Last Night I Sang to the Monster

*This book is basically if Holden Caulfield and Charlie from The Perks of Being a Wallflower had a baby who went to rehab. Now as promising as that may sound, it ended up somewhat flopping in the actual construction and consistency of the book. There was absolutely no plot whatsoever; I love character-driven novels, but this was pushing it, even for me. Our main character, Zach, repeated the same few phrases over and over again, to the point where at least one showed up on every page. Overall it felt like a very repetitive book, and the characters didn't feel very distinct. Every character seemed to speak the same way as Zach which is just unrealistic. The writing, pacing, and overall construction was very sloppy.
All that being said, this book was still very meaningful to me. It had a lot of important things to say that I really identified with. It just ended up dragging and being much too long and repetitive. I just wish the novel had been of actual higher quality so I could give it a higher rating.