Name: Nicole Mills's review of Green Dot by Madeleine Gray
Item: Green Dot
Rating: 3
Author: Nicole Mills

Madeleine Gray

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing

At 24, Hera is a clump of unmet potential. To her, the future is nothing but an exhausting thought exercise, one depressing hypothetical after another. She’s sharp in more ways than one, adrift in her own smug malaise, until her new job moderating the comments section of an online news outlet—a role even more mind-numbing than it sounds—introduces her to Arthur, a middle-aged journalist. Though she's preferred women to men for years now, she soon finds herself falling into an all-consuming affair with him. She is coming apart with want and loving every second of it! Well, except for the tiny hiccup of Arthur’s wife—and that said wife has no idea Hera exists.

With its daringly specific and intimate voice, Green Dot is a darkly hilarious and deeply felt examination of the joys and indignities of coming into adulthood against the pitfalls of the twenty-first century and the winding, tortuous, and often very funny journey we take in deciding who we are and who we want to be.

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Green Dot

Lindsey Barnett

And I know that he loves me; never once have I doubted this. But I also know that people who love you can do things that would suggest otherwise.

But I am beginning to accept that I am my flesh, and that when there is more of it, there is more of me. 

I wonder if life is just trying to encounter new situations that will bring you back to old joy, or if there is new joy to be found and, if so, where is it, does he know?

I don't know how to be in my own body, my own mind.I want to care about a story, any story.

My ex-girlfriend used to say that life was about commitment to the bit," and if that is the case I am living life so much it's wild.

pat d

Hmm I found this really slow starting for the first 100 pages maybe even more. Life is just too short for it to be wasted on stupid men!!!

Nicole Mills

i CANNOT believe how much i enjoyed this! 

i’ve never read anything similar before and maybe that’s why im rating it so high but i wasn’t expecting how hooked id be. finished in well under 24hours, i didnt want to put it down. 

this book made me look at the characters differently throughout the whole story, my opinions at the start were so different to the end. 

the reality of the work and mundane life was so relatable and then the love/obsession was so interesting to watch unfold. i cringed at Heras actions but in a good way? the desperation and isolating herself at the end was urghhhhh. what they did was so morally wrong but she’s constantly making excuses for his actions, as well as her own. it was intresting to see ‘the other womens’ perspective without her being a complete villian

Arthur was so loveable but then became so pathetic and villainous without changing his character. 

Lucy Williams

i CANNOT believe how much i enjoyed this! 

i’ve never read anything similar before and maybe that’s why im rating it so high but i wasn’t expecting how hooked id be. finished in well under 24hours, i didnt want to put it down. 

this book made me look at the characters differently throughout the whole story, my opinions at the start were so different to the end. 

the reality of the work and mundane life was so relatable and then the love/obsession was so interesting to watch unfold. i cringed at Heras actions but in a good way? the desperation and isolating herself at the end was urghhhhh. what they did was so morally wrong but she’s constantly making excuses for his actions, as well as her own. it was intresting to see ‘the other womens’ perspective without her being a complete villian

Arthur was so loveable but then became so pathetic and villainous without changing his character. 

Can’t decide if I love or hate…. romanticises affairs but also interesting to read it from the perspective of the mistress 

Ella Williams

Speedy beach read. A bit too long… which I suppose was realistic, but not so enjoyable. 

g.m.

Classic beach read, needs only quarter a brain to read. Full of 2020s pop culture references. 

Tabea Lüth

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Megan Helberg Keiser

Claudia Gulbransen-Diaz

Maria T.

hessensitive

"A darkly hilarious and deeply felt debut novel about a young Australian woman's unruly and indignant love affair with her older coworker"--

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