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A review by jessferg
Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person by Daniel Zomparelli
3.0
I don't know that I've ever had a one-word review before (and obviously I'm not starting now...) but I'm tempted to; "fractured."
Neither the stories nor the people in the stories are fully broken but neither do they constitute a whole; the stories are not quite a novel, the characters are not quite self-aware.
The writing itself, however, is entirely cohesive. It can be funny and profoundly sad, often strangely insightful in ways you don't expect. I found the most interesting stories to be the few that contain otherworldly creatures but the majority of the stories are solidly rooted in the world we know and don't suffer from it.
Because it appears that I'm currently doomed to reading a number of completely unconnected books that all end-up dealing in explicit sex, I will mention that this does have some sex scenes, none of which the average movie-and-TV-watching person should find offensive in 2018.
Neither the stories nor the people in the stories are fully broken but neither do they constitute a whole; the stories are not quite a novel, the characters are not quite self-aware.
The writing itself, however, is entirely cohesive. It can be funny and profoundly sad, often strangely insightful in ways you don't expect. I found the most interesting stories to be the few that contain otherworldly creatures but the majority of the stories are solidly rooted in the world we know and don't suffer from it.
Because it appears that I'm currently doomed to reading a number of completely unconnected books that all end-up dealing in explicit sex, I will mention that this does have some sex scenes, none of which the average movie-and-TV-watching person should find offensive in 2018.