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Luster by Raven Leilani
3.75

I waffle on how to feel about this! The writing is so good - it's clear that every word was there for a reason. And I love when an author is willing to write short sentences and characters who get to the point. But at times I felt like that was a detriment. In a lot of scenes things felt really clipped, like a movie flashing to something happening but never letting the camera linger. Especially the relationship between Edie and Rebecca. I would not complain about another 50 or so pages of this book, especially if it meant expanding on their fraught but friendly but kind of erotic but kind of enemies relationship. 

One thing I noticed now is that people have said this book is dark comedy, and I have never been good at catching onto that, so I may have been missing a lot of that as I read (listened to) this one. 

I still liked the book, but enjoyed isn't the right word, kind of like one of my favorite books of last year, Tender is the Flesh. Edie is an interesting character, and having the whole book come from her point of view made for interesting reading - I think she misunderstood situations a lot of the time, but we only have her perspective, so there's a bit of an unreliable narrator thing happening, too.