Joshua Glasgow’s Reviews > Returns and Exchanges > Status Update

Alright. In the last 30% of book, it got me. I still think I favor THE ANIMATORS, ultimately, but this book has won me over. As with Whitaker’s last, there are certain things… I didn’t have the exact same experience, but they hit close to home. Consequently, my investment in the book has increased. I’m reading it ravenously. I’m surprised I didn’t stay up past midnight to finish it.

Huh. Well, it’s not gone in exactly the inevitable tragedy direction I had been anticipating. I’d say I’m enjoying it overall but definitely not hitting me the way THE ANIMATORS did. Still a ways from finishing, but I’m already thinking about my rating. Is this the time to break out one of Goodreads’ new partial stars? A 3.75, mayhaps? Ehh, probably still too early to say.

I’m much more into this book now. There’s a lot of tension in when will everything blow up. All the characters are making bad choices. You’re rooting for Fran while also realizing she’s doing wrong. Also: I wonder if Whitaker had any actresses in mind when imagining Fran and Wendy. Or do writers not usually do that—write while imagining their writing as a movie?

At about 20 pages in, I wasn’t sure about this book. It was a lot of names and was about a business transaction and… I couldn’t tell if I was going to like it. It made me reluctant to read it, so I’ve not really read much over the past several days. Today, though, I read further and now I’m more interested. I don’t feel it’s extraordinary yet, but I can imagine getting there. I hope it happens.