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A review by readingpicnic
A Good Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins
Did not finish book. Stopped at 12%.
I was gifted a digital ARC of this book from the publisher.
I decided to DNF this book at 12% because it was unfortunately not for me. The lack of quote marks with the dialogue was a choice...I ended up being very confused a lot of the time about whether someone was speaking or whether the text was the main character's thoughts. This confusion was really frustrating as I kept rereading passages and getting stuck trying to understand what was being said. The writing was also really throwing me off for some reason, and I couldn't get into it. It felt like the story was trying too hard to be weird with the main character's thoughts, and I usually love a weird and deranged main character, but it just felt a bit off with this book. I'm sad that I couldn't get into this because I was pretty excited for it and have heard good things from other people online. I think fans of Milk Fed, or just Melissa Broder in general, would like this.
I decided to DNF this book at 12% because it was unfortunately not for me. The lack of quote marks with the dialogue was a choice...I ended up being very confused a lot of the time about whether someone was speaking or whether the text was the main character's thoughts. This confusion was really frustrating as I kept rereading passages and getting stuck trying to understand what was being said. The writing was also really throwing me off for some reason, and I couldn't get into it. It felt like the story was trying too hard to be weird with the main character's thoughts, and I usually love a weird and deranged main character, but it just felt a bit off with this book. I'm sad that I couldn't get into this because I was pretty excited for it and have heard good things from other people online. I think fans of Milk Fed, or just Melissa Broder in general, would like this.