Status Updates From Young Fools

Dnf

Pretentious. Wordy. Trite. I've never read anything else by this author, so I can't tell if it's her writing style or if it's her intention that we're reading through the eyes of the most unlikeable narrator ever. Helen herself must have written this book, used a thesaurus on every.single.word., and added as many metaphors as possible. I have to finish to see if it gets any better, but as of halfway, I'm not hopeful.

SO MUCH EXPLAIJNING ABOUT WHAT HELEN THINKS

There are very detailed scenes and then endless mind ramblings from a miserable looser. I'm really not enjoying this.

Helen is one dimensional. She wants to be a writer.
Cherry is one dimensional. She is quirky.

Their friendship is one dimensional. We hear again and again that Cherry is Helens best friend, but Helen thinks she's better than everyone so...

Helen is (allegedly) so socially awkward that she needs a diagnoses. This is quite a drag.

Helen is awkward. She is the most awkward person ever born. She has no friends. She is awkward. We know this because we are told this every paragraph.

This is very two dimensional. There is a great deal of detail about specific things - like the 6 people who attend one workshop - while everything else is very vague. There are hundreds of other people.
Some details just read wrong. They are at a crowded party, with a patio and a hot tub, and only the two main characters are outside

If I'm going to spend this much time in the main characters head, this could be better in first person.

This book does a lot of showing, directly followed by explaining that to the listener. At one point our omniscient narrator states that Helen's decisions are reactive, and spends a paragraph explaining how that works in literary theory.
At 20 % I'm in the middle of a writing workshop. This is not a book in a rush. I'm unclear whether it's meant to be satire.

Holy crap. I mean, who is this book about? Am I right?