gxuosi's Reviews (390)

if i find the right string and pull hard enough could i prevent the exploitation of women at men’s hands? if i pulled hard enough could i undo all the violence? or should i weave a new story, writing my own future?

idk man probably the most original concept ive ever read. but a shocking use of a racial slur by the coherent mentally stable narrator AND repeated fatphobia were a disappointment. what purpose to the plot did it serve to have the narrator, or you the author, use a racial slur and fatphobia?

jesus fucking christ what just happened. i need you to know this book is horrible. it’s disgusting, it’s cruel, it’s gruesome, and wildly offensive… and it’s meant to be cause it’s call a criticism of those things. but it doesn’t change the jarring horrific nature of what i just read.

trauma bonding ✨

all day every day therapist mother maid nymph then a virgin nurse then a servant just an appendage live to attend him so that he never lifts a finger 24∕7 baby machine so he can live out his picket fence dreams (the blank pages at the end were a haunting deliberate choice)

i don’t know man … you want me to support an enemies to lovers plot where an 18 year old has SINCERELY repeatedly threatened to kill a 16 year old child who’s at early admissions college … you have lost the fuckin plot bro

idk why i didnt write a review tbh. i enjoyed the hell out of this.

dnf at 25%. the author clearly is more accustomed to nonfiction and the story telling didn't quite translate for this. i do know in the end we learn about the real people these characters are fictionalized retellings of, but that just makes dwelling on a teenager's sex organs even creepier. not to mention the whole desire to marry a child and the weird undercurrent where the suit maker thinks the protagonist is a child prostitute. just deeply uncomfortable narrative choices that had little to do with what the story set out to tell the reader.

hmm. (you lost me in part 3 when the sentences became stunted, disjointed, and packed with allegories i couldn't unweave.)

dnf at 27% incredibly boring with bizarre thinly veiled racism and the stupidest fucking fantasy land names. i couldn’t have been paid to care. i’d have spent my time better scrubbing the shit out of a septic tank.