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snowiceblackfruit77's review
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
amelielucy's review
4.0
This book is fucking hilarious and smart, I love it!
I found it hard to get into at first because it gets really wordy whenever one of the writer characters in the book delivers their speeches (and I’ll admit I’m not smart enough for most of them) but it’s so interesting. And to see what they choose to reveal to the bigger writing world and in private was also extremely interesting.
You go through pages of really well written philosophical takes on translation, culture, language, politics etc. and then as a reward you get the strangest, cuntiest interactions from Mona. For example one of my favourite lines:
“Her feminist values weren’t located in her brain stem, so she never experienced any visceral reactions in their name-but she couldn’t stand to be in the same place as that Beckettian cock for a second longer.’
I think it’s just iconic that Oloixarac can shift from such smart observations to using hashtags ironically and describing sex in the most grotesquely weird way I’ve seen in a while. Very strange, almost magical at times but mostly just really clever. Excited to reread this in the future when I might understand the literary references a bit more.
I found it hard to get into at first because it gets really wordy whenever one of the writer characters in the book delivers their speeches (and I’ll admit I’m not smart enough for most of them) but it’s so interesting. And to see what they choose to reveal to the bigger writing world and in private was also extremely interesting.
You go through pages of really well written philosophical takes on translation, culture, language, politics etc. and then as a reward you get the strangest, cuntiest interactions from Mona. For example one of my favourite lines:
“Her feminist values weren’t located in her brain stem, so she never experienced any visceral reactions in their name-but she couldn’t stand to be in the same place as that Beckettian cock for a second longer.’
I think it’s just iconic that Oloixarac can shift from such smart observations to using hashtags ironically and describing sex in the most grotesquely weird way I’ve seen in a while. Very strange, almost magical at times but mostly just really clever. Excited to reread this in the future when I might understand the literary references a bit more.
chels14's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
hotpinkinthenight's review
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
I took issue with the pacing in this book, and a lot of it went over my head, but there is something strangely enigmatic about it that won’t let me rate it anything less than 3 stars.
lukashawk's review
dark
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
graciado's review
challenging
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
The opening chapter is a little trite. Everything is a drug. Coffee, prayer, music
Americanah was a better exploration of the US impositions of race on people from other nations who do not recognise the same principles
Content Warnings
Moderate: Drug use and Sexual assault
s_evan's review
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
An engaging and somewhat wild/surreal exploration of the literary world through the experience of Mona, a woman who makes (more) sense by the end.
Finished within 24 hours and truly do not know if I would have enjoyed the book as much in short installments.
Finished within 24 hours and truly do not know if I would have enjoyed the book as much in short installments.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape