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A review by smtvash
Maeve Fly by CJ Leede
4.0
SPOOKY, KOOKIE, YT ALT GIRLS
C.J. Leede's Meave Fly is a misanthropic, bit of a rollercoaster, madness-filled ride into a vapid, relentless Los Angeles. I admire how strongly it commits to it's unlikable, deeply-flawed narrator and uses her disconnection, her contempt, and failures to explore these themes of what it means to have success, connections, and a life worth living. There are nasty elements, that through Meave, are explored to their destructive conclusions.
While spending the entire book in Meave's head can be a little much, the novel is rather quick, brief read. Just enough to crawl under our skin and not enough to tire me out with enough gore, emotional highs, and character flow to keep me turning the pages.
The final chapters is what leaned this to a 4/5, just when we feel that the inane insanity is about to become a parody of itself, there are moments of self-awareness that reel it back to something with more bite, more cruelty, and even... catharsis.
C.J. Leede's Meave Fly is a misanthropic, bit of a rollercoaster, madness-filled ride into a vapid, relentless Los Angeles. I admire how strongly it commits to it's unlikable, deeply-flawed narrator and uses her disconnection, her contempt, and failures to explore these themes of what it means to have success, connections, and a life worth living. There are nasty elements, that through Meave, are explored to their destructive conclusions.
While spending the entire book in Meave's head can be a little much, the novel is rather quick, brief read. Just enough to crawl under our skin and not enough to tire me out with enough gore, emotional highs, and character flow to keep me turning the pages.
The final chapters is what leaned this to a 4/5, just when we feel that the inane insanity is about to become a parody of itself, there are moments of self-awareness that reel it back to something with more bite, more cruelty, and even... catharsis.