What a fun, dark read! I don't usually like mysteries but this was funny and weird at the same time, but not in a like torture porn way. The protagoniWhat a fun, dark read! I don't usually like mysteries but this was funny and weird at the same time, but not in a like torture porn way. The protagonist is such a weirdo she can't see how pretty and smart she is on the outside. And Wisconsin itself is almost a character here, the author's got the accents and mind sight down really well. The characters are all either super love able or super annoying. This is mostly how I find people in real life so it was nice. The one thing that really bothered me was how long it takes Kippy to stand up for herself. In the end she finally does though.
Now, for the whole controversy. Honestly, I read this book because of the author's catfish article. It is hilarious. Of course a bunch of mafia style reviewers are here again doing the same thing, telling people not to read a book they haven't read or giving it one star, to try to exact some kind of mob style revenge. This is the same thing that led to the lead reviewer before getting exposed as a fluke liar. Did anyone also read Hale's other articles in The Guardian, like the one about being sexually assaulted? The catfish piece made me want to read more, the author writes well, is smart, and stands up for herself against a bunch of whiners who hide behind the anonymity of the internet. It's a lot harder to write something and put your name on it than spew vile online behind a screename. Kudos, Hale, for taking on the online review mafia! I'll continue to read and handsell her books. ...more
Sped through this one. It doesn't even really read like YA. I felt it to be very similar to Night Circus but in a way that doesn't take anything away Sped through this one. It doesn't even really read like YA. I felt it to be very similar to Night Circus but in a way that doesn't take anything away from it. The end was slightly clunky or it would have been 5 stars. ...more
Well this was interesting. I love Michelle Tea. I've seen her perform or read like 4 times. I've got signed copies of Rent Girl and Chelsea Whistle anWell this was interesting. I love Michelle Tea. I've seen her perform or read like 4 times. I've got signed copies of Rent Girl and Chelsea Whistle and Rose of No Man's Land as well as a huge signed photograph of her running with a popsicle hanging in my living room. But despite all the rave reviews her newest title is getting, I had a lot of trouble getting into Blackwave. It honestly started out just like all her memoirs and most of her fiction, obviously about her life even when its thinly veiled as fiction. Even the main character here is named Michelle. I mean come on! I want to know that she can make up something so far off from her life that it doesn't even read like a Michelle Tea book. Anyway, towards the end Black Wave finally gets different and good. I was more interested in the end of the world stuff than allllll the San Fran stuff. Once the character Michelle gets to LA the end of the world kicks up and Tea starts pulling out some brilliant writing. The dream loves? So weird and cool and wonderful. The writer with the same name as the author, having written one memoir, trying to write fiction that's not just thinly veiled memoir, while readers are in fact reading the exact same thing? Brilliant. Matt Dillon's involvement? Awesome. This book starts off slow but blooms into a grimy, dark, beautiful, lucid tale of the end of the world....more
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