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Penance
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2.5. This might be colored by just having read a bunch of very good books about perma-online, fucked up teenage girls, but my god was this not worth the read. Clark wastes huge swaths of time over-explaining each character's backstory and following too many threads (why did we need to get into Mad Bob, Crow-on-the-Sea's historical background, podcast excerpts, Tumblr anon messages, Discord threads??).
I get the idea behind framing it as a true-crime writer's unsavory account of what happened, but it's not well-executed—all of these different interviews, asides and novelizations take away from the actually very fascinating premise and trio of girls. It could have built up to some grand finale pulling all the pieces together, with a scathing point on social class divides and flower crown serial killer/true crime fandoms, but all that gets too lost in the end.
I get the idea behind framing it as a true-crime writer's unsavory account of what happened, but it's not well-executed—all of these different interviews, asides and novelizations take away from the actually very fascinating premise and trio of girls. It could have built up to some grand finale pulling all the pieces together, with a scathing point on social class divides and flower crown serial killer/true crime fandoms, but all that gets too lost in the end.
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Aug 31, 2023 01:50AM
i want to read the very good books about perma-online, fucked up teenage girls drop the titles!
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eddy wrote: "i want to read the very good books about perma-online, fucked up teenage girls drop the titles!"gotchu—check out jawbone by mónica ojeda, brutes by tate dizz and other people's clothes by calla henkel
I thought I would love this but I’m halfway through and seriously considering sacking it off, which I NEVER would have expected. The teen speak� the long chapters� it feels such a chore
Kris wrote: "I thought I would love this but I’m halfway through and seriously considering sacking it off, which I NEVER would have expected. The teen speak� the long chapters� it feels such a chore"I was SO excited for it and then so disappointed :( I honestly had to skim some parts to get through it
I was SO excited for this one. I couldn't BE more of the target audience! But I didn't like that the book told me on page 1 that it was lies, and I might not base my story on a real murder if my goal was to critique true crime
