Lying in Wait - Liz Nugent

56%

15.06.26

It's not a bad book (it's in fact well written, well characterised, quite well plotted) but it's so unrelentingly depressing that I simply didn't want to read it. But, after many attempts, I forced my way to the end, but that was somehow even more depressing (spoiler! But this is Liz Nugent, after all: evidence #1; evidence #2). 

Our Little Cruelties - Liz Nugent

 61%

23.06.24

When I gasped and rolled my eyes, and shouted a silent 'No!', it wasn't because of bad writing, for once - far from it. The time-hopping and head-hopping structure worked well in slowly revealing the full - and awful - implications of these three brothers' selfishness, even if it was pretty hard to tell their voices apart. I'm not sure the story was totally satisfying in the end but it was certainly well constructed.

Normal People - Sally Rooney

Didn't finish

A couple with no discernible personality traits other than self-absorption have lots of sex. That's it. I was waiting for something to actually happen but in the end I couldn't be bothered to find out if anything ever did.