Nov 23, 2024
4 chapters may seem rather early to do a review so let's call this by its proper name: a venting session.
My gripe with this book is 'character consistency', a most common thing when you deal with comedies that rely on the absurd.
Marielle is initially portrayed as someone that lives in her own world but also as someone quite intelligent. I do know that there are different kinds of intelligence, and that her emotional one is probably really flawed, but what she does is akin to an adult regressing to a 3 years old.
There is a thing that happens at the beginning of chapter 4 that
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makes absolutely no freaking sense for someone obviously as smart as Marielle, and her being emotionally shook does not cut it as a justification because of how chapter 4 unfolds... unless this is supposed to be an absurdist comedy.
The problem being that up until this point (one third of the book) this did not seem to be the case. It was actually as realistic as it could be without constraining the world and characters too much, so it's quite surprising (unpleasantly) when this happens.
This is further worsened by the fact that there is a lot of Marielle's thought in every single moment, which tires the read and makes the dialogue moments an absolute slog to go through (1 back and forth of conversation and 3 paragraphs of thoughts). The thoughts in chapter 4 are even worse because they keep repeating things that we already read previously as Marielle's thoughts and because they make the character seem like an absolute buffoon (repeatedly).
So, if you do not care about the whole misunderstanding trope or character consistency you will actually find something quite entertaining here (I was having a blast the first 3 chapters). If you do, maybe read either way? I mean, you cand finish up to chapter 4 in less than 2 hours and we know you've spent already way more than that time in the whatever brain dead social media that is popular at the moment, so go make your own judgement. Unfortunately (and I mean it) I'm stopping my reading here.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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