Tampa

2.5 stars. Well written but pushes the boundaries of taste a bit too far in regards to minors. Not even good taste, just any taste. I get it, I do, and I'm fine with pushing envelopes, absolutely. And I understand that it absolutely fits the character of Celeste. She's snarky in the cruelest way. She's a terrible person. And she has no filters in her descriptions of illicit encounters with minors. But she's so awful, so irredeemable, she becomes tedious in her vulgarity. It's also awful to read about the trauma she ends up causing one of the boys. I get that this book is how beautiful people get away with all manner of shit, and men in this book enable her, and that no one takes female abuse of males seriously, but I think her level of psychopathy actually weakens the narrative a bit. At least for me.

I also kept forgetting this was Florida.