Erratic Things

I haven’t read a book as weird as this in a long long time. The book began on a very very gripping note. There’s 30-something Alicia and Remy in NYC sharing a flat with another friend, Jake. Alicia and Remy are obsessed with this woman (same age) named Jen. They stalk their profiles all the time. In fact, they do role play of being Jen at random times. This obsession and their work as servers keeps them going until finally, they bump into Jen and are suddenly going on a trip with her. Sounds weird already, right? Wait till you are 300 pages in the book and see it getting weirder. Almost a change from a Rooney-esque tensed relationships to megalomania spiralling down a complicated vortex. I will be honest, for the most part, I was sucked it. And the narrator of the audiobook read it so well, that I just didn’t want to stop hearing the book. I kept listening and listening, curious about another chapter and what more was going to happen. Although I felt the characters didn’t sound 30s at all, I held on. I kept imagining them as 20 something and read until it got so weird that I failed to like it. Yes, there came some unnecessary and dramatic plot changes that completely ruined the novel for me. I was truly expecting a lot when I was 100 or so pages into the book but halfway through it, I realised the author just destroyed it in trying to shock her readers and to make the book too weird to be liked, at least for me. I really wish… okay I can’t even say because it will be a spoiler but I don’t think that’s how you deal with such interesting characters. I was angry at the author and a bit irritated at how erratic things became after a point. I will stop ranting now but I would recommend this book to you. Maybe you may like the shift and turns? I don’t know. Take your pick.

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