A review by adamustdie_
Solitaire by Alice Oseman
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
"-are you drunk?
-im a poet."
As much as i love Alice Oseman's other work, getting through this book felt like a chore. Literally every character in this book is a danger to themselves and those around them, not in a "quirky depressed teen lolz" way but in a potential domestic terrorist way. Main character Tori suffers from a severe case of not like other girls syndrome and the book uses other peoples trauma as a way to enrich her story in a way that feels icky to me. The example to this that stuck with me was how she starts screaming to a unsuspecting Lucas about Charlies ed out of seemingly nowhere, completely irrevelant to the conversation. A good summary of the book is this quote from when Tori is having a breakdown and almost becomes self-aware, but eventually doesn't:
"...my current diary(which i do not write in anymore), i open it up, read a few entries, and close it again. Its very sad, very cliche teenager. I disgust myself."
-im a poet."
As much as i love Alice Oseman's other work, getting through this book felt like a chore. Literally every character in this book is a danger to themselves and those around them, not in a "quirky depressed teen lolz" way but in a potential domestic terrorist way. Main character Tori suffers from a severe case of not like other girls syndrome and the book uses other peoples trauma as a way to enrich her story in a way that feels icky to me. The example to this that stuck with me was how she starts screaming to a unsuspecting Lucas about Charlies ed out of seemingly nowhere, completely irrevelant to the conversation. A good summary of the book is this quote from when Tori is having a breakdown and almost becomes self-aware, but eventually doesn't:
"...my current diary(which i do not write in anymore), i open it up, read a few entries, and close it again. Its very sad, very cliche teenager. I disgust myself."