Girl Dinner by Olivie BlakeMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
File this one under "I support women's rights and wrongs"! Girl Dinner explores themes of feminism, power, and womanhood. I enjoyed Olivie Blake's writing and would definitely give another book by her a try. That being said, I did feel like this book got to be overwhelmingly preachy with excessive inner monologue instead of using the plot as a device to get these themes across. The story picks up at the 60% mark, but it still felt disjointed with all of the excessive soapbox feminism (and I say this as a highly political person who doesn't mind it taking up obvious space in her reads). I enjoyed the cannibalism aspect and the increasingly thrilling plot that develops over the last 40% of the book. This book will definitely leave you analyzing why the author made certain decisions with her story telling (like the end...?) - it felt like the story itself didn't fully align with all of the social commentary again feeding into that "disjointed" feeling I'm left with even after finishing. I'd recommend this book to readers who enjoy crazy girl cult books but I'd probably recommend books like Julie Chan is Dead by Liann Zhang over this one.
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