A review by the_old_gray_cat
Bottle Grove by Daniel Handler

1.0

"The Basic Eight" is one of my all time favorite novels, so dark and funny and amazingly well written, and so I was excited to get another acclaimed Handler novel, but like with his other post-"Basic Eight" adult work, I just didn't like it. I found the structure, the characters (and "characters" seems too strong a word, as they didn't seem like actual, well-fleshed out characters), the plot, the motif, EVERYTHING, slightly irritating.