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al8352's review against another edition
4.0
The novel is short, at 200 pages, but takes time to read. The prose is beautiful to read but full of sadness and haunting passages that shake you as you read them. Catherine is a lonely girl with a seemingly depressing past. She is estranged from her parents and her sister is dead, however, her sister is one of the most spoken of aspects of Catherine’s life. Her sister haunts her waking moments and as we find out more and more about the sister she becomes a very important character. Catherine compulsively lies her way through life; lying to her only friend Jerome, her parents and her boss at the run-down porn theatre where she sells tickets.
Everything in the world is telling Catherine and Jerome to just lie down and quit but they decide they need to leave the portside city where they reside and move to Hollywood. This is where the story really picks up and we join Catherine and Jerome on the road with a dying cat, Debbie. They are looking for redemption in different ways that are sad and horrifying.
If you fail to make a connection with Catherine or Jerome then I think the novel would be difficult to read due to the depressing nature of it, but if you can connect with one of them it is a journey that you are taking together. You start to root for them to find the redemption they so desperately seek.
Live Girls is a haunting and upsetting novel. If that isn’t your thing then I would avoid it, otherwise there is a novel of substance here that had characters that touched me. Beautifully haunting prose makes it a joy to read, even through the difficult parts.
Everything in the world is telling Catherine and Jerome to just lie down and quit but they decide they need to leave the portside city where they reside and move to Hollywood. This is where the story really picks up and we join Catherine and Jerome on the road with a dying cat, Debbie. They are looking for redemption in different ways that are sad and horrifying.
If you fail to make a connection with Catherine or Jerome then I think the novel would be difficult to read due to the depressing nature of it, but if you can connect with one of them it is a journey that you are taking together. You start to root for them to find the redemption they so desperately seek.
Live Girls is a haunting and upsetting novel. If that isn’t your thing then I would avoid it, otherwise there is a novel of substance here that had characters that touched me. Beautifully haunting prose makes it a joy to read, even through the difficult parts.
maggie71286's review against another edition
4.0
This book broke my heart. Gorgeous descriptive writing.
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