A review by tessaays
Lights Out in Wonderland by D.B.C. Pierre

2.0

I’ve been torn over this review for a while now. While this book is hopelessly enveloping and I genuinely enjoyed reading it, it was ultimately let down by some flaws that became harder and harder to overlook.
The footnotes - awful, pretentious, added nothing. I skipped them after making an effort for the first couple of chapters.
The absolutely outlandish ending - solved nothing, thematically inconsistent, and didn’t redeem or even challenge any of the characters.
The overall aim of the book - it didn’t work as a satire, and neither was it a meaningful indictment of any of the things that the protagonist claimed to hate so much. It was a rollicking good read but ultimately felt hollow and like it had very little to say.