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this book was..... unexpected. i don't know how to coherently describe my thoughts on ENTER TITLE HERE. because although yes, i did think it was a well thought out novel, and yes, the idea is good, and yes, it captured my attention and made me want to keep reading, i didn't find it enjoyable. the main reason for this is the protagonist, if you want to call her that. reshma is unlike any other protagonist i've read from; she's an antihero and chances are, you're not going to like her. (i certainly didn't.) but even though her morals were very wrong and that she has nearly every unlikable attribute EVER, i think it was worse because i couldn't relate to her. there are some antagonist that make me WANT the bad guys to win, but reshma? no... she's absolutely awful and i couldn't stand her. i know some characters are "annoying" but this was way beyond that. i could go on a five hour rant about how RESHMA HAS NO SOUL but i'll just leave it at that. the entirety of this novel revolves around reshma's "change" as a character, but i honestly found it flat and unrealistic. because i suppose this is a bit of a memoir, she actually speaks of it like "i was going to do ____, but then i realize it's something the old reshma would've done." like, um, ooooookay i honestly wouldn't have noticed a change if not for her pointing it out. it's not that she was the same person at the beginning and the end, but it was very anticlimactic and subtle. i still think she has the problems she had at the beginning of the story and didn't fully address them. after finishing the novel, i still don't understand the purpose of it. the story doesn't exactly resolve and it felt more like a waste of time than anything else. at the end, i began to ask myself, "why did i read that?" because i just DIDN'T GET IT. all in all, this book is a disappointment. it's definitely interesting and different, but i couldn't relate to the story or its characters.

This book is honestly real and came as a scary yet refreshing change to what I usually read. Reshma reminds me of myself in ways I don't like to admit. But this book helped me see that it doesn't have to be that way. It's not the happy book you typically read, but it's happy in it's own quirky way.

this book was just weird. it was fine i guess but not my thing.

