joleneparton 's review for:

Milostné pletky Nathaniela P. by Adelle Waldman

4.0

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I liked this book more than anticipated. My only issue was the entire time i was hyper aware that this seemed like a woman's interpretation of what a man thinks when he loses interest in a woman. It was an interesting mental look behind the scenes of a break up, but it wasn't necessarily accurate. I have never analyzed a relationship as deeply and...annoyingly as Nate P. She also goes into a lot of detail about the clothes women wear, a feature of women's writing I always found irritating. Her characters all have depth and seem real-they could be your friends and their interactions with one another seem genuine. They are filled with the nuances and weight of history that friendships always have. Everything relates to past situations, not just the present one. I enjoyed especially the relationship between Nate and Aurit, his primary female friend.

All in all, the characters gave the book a genuine nature, but also made me never ever want to move to Brooklyn because they were all pretentious as shit.