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A review by readingintheether
White on White by Ayşegül Savaş
4.0
The irony of picking up a new library book as a little breather between homework and studying, but it ends up requiring more brainpower than anything else I did today.
I feel like I have grown to love the trope of a woman's slow descent into madness more and more, and this book did a really good job of quietly creeping up on that "she's fully come undone" moment. The vibe was generally unsettling and reminded me a lot of what I have read from Mona Awad or Ottessa Moshfegh. I feel like this book was the perfect length for accomplishing its end. I read a different review for this book that called it "deceptively sinister," which I feel is the most perfect description and there's no point in elaborating.
PS. Lauren Groff blurbed this book too, which if you have ever read anything by Lauren Groff just makes 100% sense. If you read this, be prepared to feel like an absolute uncultured idiot who has never had an original thought <3
I feel like I have grown to love the trope of a woman's slow descent into madness more and more, and this book did a really good job of quietly creeping up on that "she's fully come undone" moment. The vibe was generally unsettling and reminded me a lot of what I have read from Mona Awad or Ottessa Moshfegh. I feel like this book was the perfect length for accomplishing its end. I read a different review for this book that called it "deceptively sinister," which I feel is the most perfect description and there's no point in elaborating.
PS. Lauren Groff blurbed this book too, which if you have ever read anything by Lauren Groff just makes 100% sense. If you read this, be prepared to feel like an absolute uncultured idiot who has never had an original thought <3