A review by kwmathias
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

1.0

This feels like a novel written by the Lunar Park version of Bret Ellis: a pathetic attempt at regaining a sense of relevance, reaching back and drawing upon what had once made him famous. Reading it that way might help. Otherwise, this is missing everything that once made Ellis’s work so compelling. It’s neither funny nor shocking, it pushes no boundaries in meaningful ways, and despite being nearly 600-pages long, has absolutely nothing interesting to say.