Pink Fiction Club

  Some time ago, I read and reviewed Taylor Jenkins Reid’s ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’. In the review, I mentioned I did not fully enjoy it and I found a lot of flaws with it. However, a friend of time mentioned that she read ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ and that she preferred it.  I have also seen a lot of readers get emotionally invested in this story, which prompted me to finally read it. This was an entertaining read, with a rather original way of telling a story full of complicated characters and relationships between them, but I must admit that I did not get too emotionally invested in it and unfortunately I found a lot of flaws with it. ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ tells the story of a sudden rise and fall of a rock band and their lead singer Daisy Jones in the 70s. Through the interviews of the people who participated in the events, the readers slowly start to put together the true story about how these people started playing together and why they stopped. Becaus...

  I picked this book up from my local Tesco shop as it was familiar to me from other reviewers on the internet. It had an intriguing cover, indicating that the book will be filled with female rage, something that I enjoy reading and can engage with. However, very quickly into diving into ‘How to Kill Your Family’ I realized this will be one of the worst books I have read this year, if not longer. Although with an interesting concept and good potential for an effective satire, everything else was just…bad. The characters were flat to the point where they do not work even as symbols, the plot was predictable and stale and the social critique read more like an edgy middle schoolers diary than an actual published work. The majority book is actually a prison diary of Grace Bernard, a young woman who is in prison for a murder she claims has not committed. However, she did commit six other murders, all members of her family. While waiting for her appeal process to start, she goes through ...

T  oday, I am presenting another example of dark academia, (after Babel and The Secret History) that I also found out through bookstagram, even though it was originally published in 2017. I read the whole 600 pages of the novel in a few days, as it was so captivating and immersive I could not put it down before finishing it. The premise is similar to Tartt’s ‘The Secret History’, in sense of setting and the dynamic between the group of the protagonists with the narrator being sort of an outcast, I must say that the novel in this review accomplishes this much better and I enjoyed it a lot more for various reasons. For me, this was one of the best takes on dark academia I have read in a while. ‘If We Were Villains’ is set in an elite conservatory where the main group of protagonists whose friendship and their inevitable downfall is the seven drama majors who have focused on Shakespeare so much that they even talk to each other in Shakespeare lines. The novel actually opens with one o...