A review by vulpasvulpas
Wreck and Order by Hannah Tennant-Moore

This is one of my first and only DNF books from this year, largely due to the incoherence and faulty linearity of the narrative - it would've been alright if I didn't have 35 other books on my to-read list currently queued up at the foot of my bed, so sacrifices had to be made in the effort of moving forward. There's a lot to say for Tennant-Moore's writing, however. I love splotchy, displacing, irrevocably distressed styles, as unpopular as they are; I love feeling the nervousness and destructiveness of Elsie lift off the page through her narrative, sharp as shattered glass on a cement floor. There's nothing really to be done when it's shattered like that except cut every exposed area of your fingers trying to sift through the pieces, finding no point really in it's already completed self-ruination, and that's pretty much what reading this book was like.