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A review by makealongstorycourt
Penance by Eliza Clark
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
WOW WOW WOW.
I didn’t know I loved metafiction this much until I read this.
I was not a huge fan of Boy Parts, so I was a little hesitant picking up this. I knew Eliza Clark was a young author, but I had heard fantastic things about penance so I knew I had to try it out.
Holy lord. This was dark, twisted, and so so meta. The entire concept of the novel had me gripped the whole way through. I haven’t stayed up late to read a book in so long, but this one did it for me.
The teen speak was hard to digest sometimes, I will admit. Yet, I appreciate it because of the metafiction present in this book. As I was reading, I had a hard time understanding how the prose in this book could be considered “literary.” Not until the last few sections did I realize that it’s less of the prose and more of the plot/concept of the novel that is more literary.
A critique of society’s consumption of true crime at the expense of real people’s pain and suffering, Penance is both grotesque and brilliant.
I didn’t know I loved metafiction this much until I read this.
I was not a huge fan of Boy Parts, so I was a little hesitant picking up this. I knew Eliza Clark was a young author, but I had heard fantastic things about penance so I knew I had to try it out.
Holy lord. This was dark, twisted, and so so meta. The entire concept of the novel had me gripped the whole way through. I haven’t stayed up late to read a book in so long, but this one did it for me.
The teen speak was hard to digest sometimes, I will admit. Yet, I appreciate it because of the metafiction present in this book. As I was reading, I had a hard time understanding how the prose in this book could be considered “literary.” Not until the last few sections did I realize that it’s less of the prose and more of the plot/concept of the novel that is more literary.
A critique of society’s consumption of true crime at the expense of real people’s pain and suffering, Penance is both grotesque and brilliant.