A review by autihd_elno
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I enjoyed this book quite a lot until the final chapter. The constantly shift POV was interesting and overall I found it worked for me, there were only two or so chapters I found dragged relative to the rest of the book. The final chapter didn't ruin the book for me by any means, but something about the speculative fiction element of it didn't land well for me. Maybe it would have landed better in 2010, but I had trouble buying into the imagined future tech. I also didn't much like the character of
Alex,
and not so much in a like-ability way, I didn't necessarily "like" a good number of the POV characters in the book, but for whatever reason
Alex, or his story,
felt like a let down, or anti-climax for the end of the book. 
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