Owen Phillips’s Reviews > April May June July > Status Update

I’m sorry last one I promise but literally even in the epilogue July’s chapter is more about some ham fisted political analysis of the Obama administration’s inheritance of Reagan’s dismemberment of the Middle East than any personal growth he had. Why is this, I hear no one asking. Because July didn’t have any growth because he was barely a character in this book!

For July, Nate played by Owen Thiele and July played by whatever white boy of the month it is. Fingers crossed for Josh O’Connor

For June, a better goddamn wife

For May, also death

New game, I am passing divine judgement. For April, death

Unfortunately for this book July is probably my favorite character and it’s because he’s the only one the plot is happening through. This book makes no sense it’s so confusing I’m so irritated. Like genuinely I don’t understand why July is even in the book but at the same time I kinda think he’d better off in his own novel like he’s in a completely different movie

What’s even the point of this. I mean it. The dad was dead the whole time, they’ve taken this insane vacation to Iraq, pontificating the whole time about the folly of the American war machine, about the Cold War, the Contras, the lack of international response to the Assad regime, and what? Their father was facilitating it? I think we’ve established the only innocents are the dead. So what was the point?

Feeling sort of inspired to get a plane to Iraq just to see how easy it is

And we all do remember that I knew Ross was a bitch and they discovered the affair we all remember this. Would be really funny if they all die in Iraq sometime in the last quarter of this book. Would bump up the review at least half a star. July is in a different fucking movie from his shitty sisters. They’re all acting out Long Day’s Journey Into Night and he’s trying to convince them to do Billy Elliot

Not to be an enabler but it’s clear that the people she’s surrounded by are not actually that accomplished at reading June’s moods and responses to the point where they’ve allowed her to spiral to this degree but also like can you call it alcoholism when she has like one drink with dinner and it isn’t particularly affecting her life? She’s holding down the job and planning the wedding like lock me up but