A review by mmccombs
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

dark sad medium-paced

3.5

Some really interesting characters and themes but like kind of too unbearable/unlikeable/flat out mean. I’m a big fan of unhinged girlie books, but this kind of felt needless and some of Greta/Sabine’s offhanded remarks hit incorrectly. Characters can be racist and cruel cause people are too, but I’d like for the satire/motivation behind it to be more intentional. Also, with the narration of this book I kept forgetting Greta was much older than Big Swiss, which is maybe the point, but whenever it mentioned that Big Swiss was 28 I was like… wait really? Mostly I enjoyed what this book had to say, but the execution wasn’t quite right I think.
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