![]() It was a messy affair just like these characters’ lives are a mess. And I think this is where I found the beauty in reading this book. I didn’t love it and wasn’t blown out of my mind like some of other reviews said I’d be, but I also didn’t dislike it completely. And although I wasn’t 100% convinced and “converted”, I could get to end in the basis of “let’s agree to disagree”. I wanted this book to change my mind about my first impression. It was then I knew I’d stick around until the end out of sheer stubbornness. Then I either got used to the style or the narrator improved, or both, and the second half of the book made me feel… something. Zevin stylistic choices in the narrative makes it hard to connect with the MCs way beyond halfway through the book. But maybe books are my “alternative reality” when life is just too much to handle. I can appreciate this story even when it lost me many times (I could care less about video games and virtual reality). They’re still pretentious sometimes, but now you care about them, even when you wish you didn’t. You start understand where they come from and why they act the way they do. You start to see the broken person behind the mask. ![]() ![]() As time goes by, they still annoy you out of your mind, but you start to see the chinks in their armor. This book felt like that person who rubs you the wrong way the very first time you meet, but you’re thrown in together and have to figure out a way of working out your differences. ![]()
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