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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.
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.
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Sexism, and Sexual violence
No instances of psychosis/schizophrenia however the way in which certain events are framed may be triggering the line between a virtual world and real life becomes very blurred. The narrator cannot determine if events are real or imagined and other characters lie to them about it.