4.5 stars

Perhaps I was in the exact right mood for this collection on the eve of the new year and the new decade. I found it to be just as compelling and well-written as Shrill. West has a knack for distilling complicated ideas and truths into pieces and parcels that are funny and easily understandable. This was just extremely for me, all of the through lines that connect media and internet trolls and pop-culture and activism and where we failed and where we have hope and the current presidency. In a chapter where she talks about quitting Twitter, I almost nearly just deleted my whole account, which is a big deal because I love that damn cess pool app.

I watched West's Shrill on Hulu this year and loved it. I enjoyed hearing pieces about that work, even though they were brief, but more I loved connecting ideas expressed her into West's fictional work.

My only quibbles is that I love collections of essays that have a more defined structure. There is a sort of theme here certainly, and the witch hunt thing pops up here and there, but with a bit more of a through-line, this could've been perfect.