this was an unbelievably boring read for a pitch that could have made an amazing book. it would have needed a better editor and maybe different authors aswell, the storytelling was sloppy, there was so little happening between each "story telling nights" that it was impossible to build a connection to anyone. the butch lesbian super could have been so much more as a protagonist but smh they chose to give her one personality trait (alcoholic) and i could bring myself to care for any of the other tenants either.

in hindsight (knowing the plot twist at the end) it makes a lot of sense why it would have been written that way but that doesnt excuse how boring it was. i read it for magaret atwood alone and she only sponsored a single story that also wasnt her best effort so i was pretty disappointed overall. i didnt check which story was hers before i read the book so i made a little game of it. having read a lot of atwoods work i thought it would be funny for me to guess which story was hers to see if i could recognise her writing and i guessed wrong but that didnt matter cause the only good thing that came from this book was that i discovered one (1) new author im interested in!

the writer i mistook for margaret atwood was in fact charlie jane anders and im looking forward to reading some of her work!