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The plot doesn't quite gel, but St. Aubyn's ambitious subject material, great language, and biting humor work for me.

this whole book felt like one massive SHE task where the author tries to use every single possible word in the english language to meet the word count

The plot of this book felt very half finished, I also felt the language was very indulgent. Like the author went a bit wild with the thesaurus. Why are we using the word ‘transubstantiation’ it feels unnecessary. If you are writing a book with a bunch of philosophical tangents then probably it could just be a book of essays and not a seemingly half finished novel.

Not many of the narrative arcs are resolved by the end, but I enjoyed the ride because of the accurate description of cellular biology and sometimes sublime prose (narrated by the brilliant Benedict Cumberbatch). I also liked the shout-outs to Filipino nurses and [a: Siddhartha Mukherjee|3032451|Siddhartha Mukherjee|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1461962032p2/3032451.jpg].

This was a random pull I did at a local bookshop in Houston, the cover was just gorgeous, and the back of the book pulled me in. I've never read his Patrick Melrose novels so didn't have anything he wrote to compare to. I DID enjoy this read - I just had to re-read many pages because of the "content" being so random in terms of wilding, medical technology, and whatnot. I loved the human context in the characters though. I'm giving it a 3.5! lol

2.5 stars. I didn’t like how it ended, and wanted some character arcs more wrapped up. I could’ve just followed Francis around for the entire book and been quite happy with it

3.5 stars. Some great lines but it all felt like a bit of a muddle with a very abrupt end.

I liked this book very much. I am, however, tired of novels with IT billionaires in them.

Wait. What? Was that the end? But.. but...