![]() book review: Either/Or by Elif Batuman | BookBrowse.You can pick up a copy of Bunny here on Book Depository. And I feel I may have been overly harsh here, but expectations were high and I just didn’t enjoy the ride nearly as much as I hoped I would. ![]() ![]() No spoilers, but suffice to say I found the resolution well worth waiting for. The thing that I did absolutely adore about this book was the ending. It’s one of those books that sort of sat in that nebulous grey area between being a chore to read and a pleasure. As you read you have the feeling that there’s something just outside your grasp that remains integral to the plot, and that feeling of being slightly unmoored was never compensated with a compelling enough hook to make me really care to figure out what it was that I was missing. There was a sort of disorienting quality to this book that I didn’t particularly enjoy. I didn’t dislike reading it, but I also didn’t find it nearly as weird or groundbreaking or darkly funny as other readers have. A horror novel set on a college campus surrounding a toxic friend group sounds like a recipe for perfection, but I found the result a little uneven. I liked the idea of this book more than I ended up liking the execution. ![]()
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