mooshake's reviews
239 reviews

i really liked alexis henderson’s other works, but this is perplexingly bad. that passage that describes the main characters having sex and the only sound that can be heard is the thump of the headboard haunts my nightmares.

written by a man (derogatory)

listen…should this have been a 250-300 page book at most? yes. was the detective subplot unnecessary? yes. was the tom cruise thing, even though i understand the significance of it, silly as fuck? yes.

and yet! i made it to the climax and my brain finally started picking up what mona awad was putting down. maybe it's because i love explorations of grief and complicated parent relationships, as well as being a whore for anything fairytale adjacent- but the ending really touched me AND i had a ball pondering the symbolism afterwards in a way that i have not done with most of the books i’ve read this year. i don’t know how exactly but i came away really appreciating what this book did with its themes.

if i had read rouge before bunny i might’ve rated it higher, bunny is the better-crafted novel hands down. but i still have a soft spot for rouge in spite of myself. never underestimate the power of something tapping into your own damage i guess lol.

i do wish mona awad picked any other celebrity tho 😭

i think this book is trying to be satirical, but it's not going far enough with its satire and everyone is just coming off as stereotypes. idk all it's doing is making me cringe for the most part and i couldn't even tell you what is going on world-building or plot-wise if you twisted my arm lol.
 
shout out to the male narrator who makes damien's dad sound like doug dimmadome 

not in the mood for something so heavy right now 

:/

this had the potential to be such a cool story, how tf to you make the spanish inquisition boring??