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I loved the authors first book, Such a Fine Age. It was social satire at its best.

This has everything I should have loved in a character driven novel. But I didn’t love it. To be fair, it’s difficult to make a book featuring a group of college girls and their banal conversations interesting. Fortunately, the excellent writing and the audiobook narrator kept me awake.

This was supposed to be (I think?) about money: who has it and who doesn’t and how this affects their attitudes. Race, power imbalance, sexuality and journalistic ethics come into play. So much potential. But the plot meanders along, tensions build slowly, (too slowly) and the climactic scene fell completely flat. Was the pizza cutter scene supposed to be absurd and funny? I don’t think so but I found it eye-rolling.

I love Reid’s writing but I just couldn’t muster enough interest to care about what happened to any of these characters.

* I received a review copy via NetGalley. All opinions are my own