Leah’s Reviews > Nightbitch > Status Update

“…her arduous psychological work of the past weeks to get a handle on her urges, to harness her desires” (Yoder 148).

This is what I mean about bad writing.

It’s heavy-handed. It feels like the author either looked words up in the dictionary or thesaurus to sound so smart or used ai to get her sentence to sound smarter.

I really hate the majority of this book.

Until it hits the weird parts, where she and her son act like dogs and bask in the freedom of it all.

That is good!

Everything else should be thrown into the void, never to be seen or acknowledged ever again.

Did we just learn about the meaning of patriarchy and the divide of gender, author? Because you won’t stop mentioning it now, and it’s starting to get on my nerves :)

“Of course, she knew that the concept of ‘the hysterical woman’ itself was itself a sexist creation, and she rejected the label altogether, but she also made sure no one would ever associate her with such a label to begin with” (Yoder 50).

Wow — so riveting. If you read this book, get ready for more long sentences and concepts like this!

Seriously, only a quarter of this book should exist at this point.

This is so long-winded, like the author wanted to emulate old literature with long, extravagant words and lots—and I mean lots—of commas to make sentences longer.

But there is an astonishing amount of talk of feces—the son’s, the cat’s, and so on—for such a book that wants so hard to be classic literature.

Feel like this could have been a short story because it’s really lagging at points.

It went from her growing what she thought was fur then to just talk about her complications with balancing work and having a baby then to just her obsession with art — all of which are given in such excruciating detail that I forgot she was even becoming dog-like!