This book is far, far away from mine, but since it was personally recommended to me by a friend I did not have second thoughts.

We are plunged in Montréal following a mostly unnamed protagonist surviving from one pay check to the next, paychecks he can't help but feed into the slot machines.

This book is a ride. It's loud and vibrant and mind-blowing. The prose grabs you in a couple of sentences and doesn't let go, which makes the book easy to read although it's not an easy read in terms of themes. I very much enjoyed the Québec idioms, which I didn't always understand but which coloured the text immensely. I didn't particularly feel for any character, but I was absolutely hooked and kept reading with a sort of fascinated horror. If you're not afraid of dark books and are looking for some literary fiction, let me recommend this.