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A review by softandcrunchy
Life after Truth by Ceridwen Dovey
3.5
I know lots of people are unfavourably comparing this to The Secret History, which makes perfect sense, but I enjoyed reading this a lot more. Maybe because I only expected it to be a fun story rather than anything insightful. And there's no doubt that the writing is good.
It's a white, privileged writer's take on contemporary, privileged, progressive angst, and I enjoyed the soap opera ride. It was fun hating characters like Rowan and Mariam, who are slaves to their ideals and over-indulged children, and Eloise and Binx, with their exploitative, dystopian aspirations. What's interesting is that the writer chose to kill only one of the novels awful characters.
It's a white, privileged writer's take on contemporary, privileged, progressive angst, and I enjoyed the soap opera ride. It was fun hating characters like Rowan and Mariam, who are slaves to their ideals and over-indulged children, and Eloise and Binx, with their exploitative, dystopian aspirations. What's interesting is that the writer chose to kill only one of the novels awful characters.