A review by abookishtype
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Graeme Macrae Burnet works his metafictional magic again in Case Study, a tale of unreliable narrators and unstable identities. The narrator of this book—also named Graeme Macrae Burnet—has been working on a biography of a controversial psychologist when he receives a set of five notebooks from a woman who believed that this psychologist was responsible for her sister’s suicide. The narrator shares the notebooks and his chapters for the biography, leaving it up to us readers to puzzle over all kinds of juicy questions about duty of care, psychological care, identity, personality, mental illness, and so much more. I absolutely devoured this book...

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