A review by lucasgarner
Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin

3.0

Saint X is a novel with many great ideas, and beautiful, pointed prose, that’s it’s a shame that it doesn’t always work out the way you want it to. Author Alexis Schaitkin tends to ramble, a lot, so that the book gets bogged down by details which ultimately don’t really matter. But for a first novel that is this experimental and is so willing to challenge the common narrative, it’s hard to not appreciate what was accomplished with this novel, even though it may not be all that interesting the entire way through.