A review by gfabulous
Kill Your Darlings, by Terence Blacker

1.0

there are few things in the world that annoy me more than a straight man's explanation of how women experience sex, and there's a lot of that in this book - like okay, i understood that the main character was supposed to be this frustrated author who's unhappy with his family life in literally the first two chapters, i didn't need the gratuitous explanation of how him and his wife's sex life and his loss of "control" over her (EW) parallels their marital decline. i hated gregory in general! i didn't care what happened to him! i had no interest in reading fourteen chapters of him complaining about the social fakeness of the literary world and how hard and demeaning it was for him to be a paid columnist (boo hoo) before any actual plot even happened! i'd be way more likely to read a book about marigold's life as a successful interior designer dealing with her deadbeat husband than said deadbeat husband feeling emasculated because his wife makes more money than him.

thanks, terence blacker! i hated it.