The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘I couldn't stop reading or caring about the juicy and dysfunctional Plumb family’ AMY POEHLER ‘A masterfully constructed, darkly comic, and immensely captivating tale...Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney is a real talent’ ELIZABETH GILBERT

That was one heck of a dysfunctional family. This book reads like a soap opera that you get caught into and want to know more!

the only good or valid characters in this book are Louisa and Nora

Meh. It was a fun, easy read, but ask me what it was about in a few years and I will have most likely forgotten.

This was an enjoyable, quick and easy read; I didn't particularly love it, but the writing is delicate and deliberate and I found myself swept up in the family drama. However, it felt suuuppeer bougie, ensconced in a perspective of white privilege (and considering that is my own perspective, I did not enjoy it as I seek books as a means to widen my own perspective). And I bought the internal lives of the characters fell a bit flat/all ran into each other. Some characters were barely fleshed out at all, so it felt strange to have even brief access to their psyche. And the ending felt a little too happily-ever-after for me.