Interesting enough in the first half but I found myself losing interest. 

I feel like the ending invalidates any point the author was trying to make and relegates it all to grimdark “we live in a society” bullshit. 

The first half was a convincing enough metaphor for capitalism. The midpoint twist was confusing and meandering. And the ending was a flaccid mess. 

I feel like at some point this book just was gross for the sake of being gross. 

What a cute story! I can’t believe I missed this one as a kid. I think it’s great for a middle schooler getting into history. It doesn’t shy away from deeper more difficult subjects like arranged marriage, antisemitism, difficult childbirths and miscarriage.

I started getting quite bored. Maybe if I was younger this would have hit me more. But I really just wanted to move on. 

The story was good but it got so meandering at points. A lot of the philosophizing could have been cut. But very interesting read. 

That audiobook makes the difference