i have mixed feelings about this book, i feel like i related to a lot of the things in here but the author went more in an incel direction

really enjoyed: malibu, the weirdos, no place for good people, slumming, nothing ever happens here, the surrogate, and a better place

the ones who walk away from omelas but as a novel about how racism systematically will fail everyone. no wonder people keep trying to ban it :/

i just wish the interesting facts about space were more obsecure

needed more lesbians

i think its important for those who are upset about the ending to realize that it was Very Much a metaphor about the topics explored in the book

 

i think if you read this book as sort of an equivalent to how humbert humbert (replacing with florentino) narrated lolita there is a lot to gain from this... all i can say is fuck men though

this was such a well researched, historical novel with so much love and detail put into it. i almost cried at multiple parts :( its a lesbian story about finding love, losing love, and choosing to forgive

not as addictive as the silent patient but I found this plot more plausible than SP. wish there was more dark academia and more of The Maidens :(

i feel like i maybe didnt read this book at the right time in my life- i might have to be a bit older. i think there is probably a lot of rereadability here. there are so many people i think this book can click with more than i did at this point in my life right now.

that being said i really appreciated quite a realistic depiction of a mental illness and how it made the main character pretty unlikable for most of the book. the writing was a little too millennial coded for me to fully enjoy on its own. i also think things wrap up way too nicely in the end but there is still some realism there.