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The Regrets
by Amy Bonnaffons
WARNING: This book is really horny. Like, really.
The beginning of this book really sets up an interesting scene. Not completely original, but frank in its confidence of the explanations of being "not sufficiently dead", and avoiding "Regrets".
There's obviously some millennial 20-something year old post-college sex-all-the-time vibes going on and I thought this was just going to be a character trait for one person. Turns out the whole world these characters live in is full of vain 20-something year old sexaholics and it kind of felt more like a tv show than a book. I guess people like that do exist and that is fine but I didn't relate to the characters because it wasn't something I resonated with. It didn't totally tear me out of the book, but it felt pretty flat and shallow.
By the time you're in the last act, all the neat ideas set up at the beginning seemed to have vaporized and you're left drifting in a direction that doesn't really lead to any great conclusions. And I think that was the most disappointing part for me, that the focus changed so dramatically from the first couple chapters. If you put the beginning and the end side by side I don't know if you don't totally tell it was the same story.
But it was a quick read (read it in two sittings) and overall it wasn't a waste of time. It was a fun little trip into a world of characters who revolve a lot of their lives around sex than I'm used to, and sometimes that's refreshing. Ghostie undertones made it more fun.
The beginning of this book really sets up an interesting scene. Not completely original, but frank in its confidence of the explanations of being "not sufficiently dead", and avoiding "Regrets".
There's obviously some millennial 20-something year old post-college sex-all-the-time vibes going on and I thought this was just going to be a character trait for one person. Turns out the whole world these characters live in is full of vain 20-something year old sexaholics and it kind of felt more like a tv show than a book. I guess people like that do exist and that is fine but I didn't relate to the characters because it wasn't something I resonated with. It didn't totally tear me out of the book, but it felt pretty flat and shallow.
By the time you're in the last act, all the neat ideas set up at the beginning seemed to have vaporized and you're left drifting in a direction that doesn't really lead to any great conclusions. And I think that was the most disappointing part for me, that the focus changed so dramatically from the first couple chapters. If you put the beginning and the end side by side I don't know if you don't totally tell it was the same story.
But it was a quick read (read it in two sittings) and overall it wasn't a waste of time. It was a fun little trip into a world of characters who revolve a lot of their lives around sex than I'm used to, and sometimes that's refreshing. Ghostie undertones made it more fun.