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coralinejones's Reviews (556)
I gave it my best but I can't get into this to save my life. Felt like I was thrown into the second book of a series and it just never recovered for me. I don't care about what's happening at all. The concept is good, I don't mind the gore and other trigger warnings, but the execution is... Not good here.
The way this was described to me was significantly different than the book I read. So. I'm disappointed as you can imagine. But even that aside, a majority of this story was just dull and interesting to me. The "horror" is quite minimal here. If you're reading this because you like "The Substance"... Sorry ahead of time?
I have conflicting thoughts about this novel and if I wasn't sitting at my desk I think I would tear it apart better than I currently can.
On one hand I understood where the author was going with these topics. Discussions about autonomy, sex, feminism, tradwife-culture. You know, the works. Women are often in mentally abusive relationships with men who want to use them for their bodies. Etc, etc. Cool. Got it.
On the other, it didn't dive deep enough into any of these topics for me to feel satisfied. 200 pages of Doug being a true piece of shit for such a lame payoff. If you can even call the ending that. I didn't like how... Easy? The end felt.
Spoilers ahead. I assumed when Annie left the story was going to go in a completely different direction. I thougjt at that point she was going to take real control of her life and maybe start some sort of robot rebllion. But no. I thought, assumed, prayed, hoped, at some point she would break out of her matrix and kill Doug. Hurt him. Get him in trouble. But no.
He just.. Learns his ways? Allows her to go? And she walks off? WHAT? Girl, good for you I guess, but he didn't even deserve to get off that easy. Fuck that.
On one hand I understood where the author was going with these topics. Discussions about autonomy, sex, feminism, tradwife-culture. You know, the works. Women are often in mentally abusive relationships with men who want to use them for their bodies. Etc, etc. Cool. Got it.
On the other, it didn't dive deep enough into any of these topics for me to feel satisfied. 200 pages of Doug being a true piece of shit for such a lame payoff. If you can even call the ending that. I didn't like how... Easy? The end felt.
Spoilers ahead. I assumed when Annie left the story was going to go in a completely different direction. I thougjt at that point she was going to take real control of her life and maybe start some sort of robot rebllion. But no. I thought, assumed, prayed, hoped, at some point she would break out of her matrix and kill Doug. Hurt him. Get him in trouble. But no.
He just.. Learns his ways? Allows her to go? And she walks off? WHAT? Girl, good for you I guess, but he didn't even deserve to get off that easy. Fuck that.
I just don't enjoy short story collections.
Goth Girl was one of the worst "stories" I've ever been subjected to. I HATE reading stories that make me question what the point is; why am I sitting here forcing myself to understand these words on paper? Every single story was just that. Written for the sake of being written. Now, not every story needs to have a higher, greater purpose, but at least entertain me. This did none of that.
Goth Girl was one of the worst "stories" I've ever been subjected to. I HATE reading stories that make me question what the point is; why am I sitting here forcing myself to understand these words on paper? Every single story was just that. Written for the sake of being written. Now, not every story needs to have a higher, greater purpose, but at least entertain me. This did none of that.
Well, that's disappointing. I couldn't get into this at all.
