A review by the_lesbrarian
Girlcrush by Florence Given

challenging dark funny tense
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

Still gathering my thoughts. If Girlcrush had leaned heavier into horror, a la The Substance or Patricia Wants To Cuddle, I think this could’ve been great. 

I really enjoyed the variation in prose in the novel’s last third that  was perfectly disjointed and paced to demonstrate a psychological descent-into-madness type narration. However, I’m not even sure if that was the intent. 

I thought up until the very end that this was a twisty genre horror thriller following a deeply, deeply flawed victim, but the epilogue instead reframes the entire novel to become a strangely out of touch and unbelievable sci fi rom com. 
 



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