Swollen

I'm sure you've read books that you “just couldn't put down,” they were that good.

This is one of the books that you just can't really pick up. It's one of the very few that I almost gave up on, it was that boring.

There's not really any reason to care very much about any of the characters in the novel. Everyone has flaws, granted, but in this novel it's hard to find much of anything positive to say about any of the characters at all.

In addition, the book is stuffed to the gills with social problems. A divorce; a father's new girlfriend who gets pregnant; cutting; abortion; pot smoking; unprotected sex, etc. It's like “how many ways can we count the dysfunctionalities” in the people. There is just no one and nothing to really care about in the novel, no grand purpose, no overarching theme, just a collection of things people are doing that you don't really care about them or what happens to them.

One of the few books that I've read that I simply say just avoid.

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