I very rarely ditch a book halfway through but this just wasn't working for me. I got to 45% and I was just confused by it all.

This book follows a Croatian author who seemingly suffers from amnesia. Thanks to his amnesia, he's turned into a fantastic story teller to mask that he has no memories. When we meet him, he's written two wonderful books. His third is a failure. You know what else is a failure? His relationship. His girlfriend is unhappy that he doesn't have any memories to share and he just keeps lying.

But as you can probably guess, it turns out that he doesn't have amnesia at all. He's just repressed his memory.

To start, I found the book quite crass in places. Admittedly this could just be because it was a little lost in translation.

Also, at 30% ISH, the book went back to chapter one and is told from the start and instead of being written in third person as has been up to this point, it switches to first person but there's no real signposting.

I just found it so chaotic and a chore to read. Life's too short to read books that don't work for you, so I decided to ditch it.