I had just finished "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" when a close friend of mine suggested this book. Despite my distaste for the author, I decided to go ahead and read this book, as I value her literary tastes.

Surprise! I liked this book even less.

"This Is How You Lose Her" had everything I disliked about "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" but without the plot: an aimless lustful male main character, a constant and unclear shifting perspective narrative (there's a female speaker at some point), unnecessarily vulgar Dominican slang, and an interest due to someone being diagnosed with cancer. The book read like rejected chapters from "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao", especially considering that the speakers are generally the same characters.