- Even after finishing this novel, I feel like I still don't know the main characters.
- The book is divided roughly into two sections, each one devoted to each main character's point of view.
- Overall, the novel was enjoyable, even if it didn't live up to all of the hype.
- This is Black Beauty for adults.
- In this novel Gaitskill looks into where the best intentions intersect with real-world conflict based in privilege and opportunities.
- With short chapters, this novel is a quicker read than it appears.
- This novel falls on the literary end of the spectrum for romance novels.
- This novel focuses on characters focusing what they really want in life, and who they want to be in their lives.
- The main characters' resilience is the center point of the novel.
- With four narrating characters, the audiobook becomes disjointed.
- This book explores the impacts of medical testing on children.
- The main character is permanently scarred by medical testing as a child. As an adult, she encounters the doctor who led the experiments.
- Within the first 40 pages, the plot of the novel is fairly clear.
- While the novel addresses a gruesome topic, it felt safe and even somewhat hokey.
- Having heard horror stories of online dating, I was curious to hear what Aziz had to say. (I'm thankfully I missed the introduction of online dating.)
- The book is a balance of sociological research and Aziz's humorous commentary. All together this makes for an interesting read.
- As an audiobook narrated by Aziz, my experience reading the book felt like Aziz's stand-up on the topic of dating.
- As Aziz fans would expect, there were numerous references to delicious food throughout the book.
- Katzenbach explores the world of addiction and recovery through several characters in this book.
- Although I rarely read mysteries, this one is appealing given the well-developed characters.
- The two main characters research the past of a recently deceased relative.
- The last half of the book gets really dark (e.g. scenes that reference the Saw movie franchise).
- Mackler chronicles how a group of five students that meet high school freshman year transform into seniors.
- An appealing trait of the book is that this isn't about a single group of friends with predictable conflict. Instead, the five students are not close as freshman. Even as seniors they are not a cohesive group.
- The reader sees how scared and immature freshman evolve into well-rounded and interesting seniors ready to take on the world.
- Overall, I'd rank the book in the top quarter of YA novels.
