I found this so unpleasant. It's been more than a month since I finished this, so pardon my brief summary, but I was mad at the time. Just everything about it. The dialogue was awful. It sounds like it's trying so hard to be "smart" and totally failing. The characters were flat. The alternating back and forth was so annoying because I didn't care at all what happened in the past and those chapters felt like such a drag.

It tries so hard to have a conversation about art and pornography and childhood innocence and completely fails in every respect. There's no subtlety. One of the earliest scenes is a literal academic lecture about these topics. It's pretty unpleasant to be lectured to as a reader.

I wouldn't recommend this one. I wish I'd written this review while it was still fresh because I would love to get into every detail that I hated, but alas most of this has disappeared from my brain.