A Touch of Jen

This book starts out as a well executed, unapologetic examination of a 30ish year old couple, whose lives are stalled, and their unhealthy one-sided relationship with a woman from their past. At about the 170 page mark it slowly becomes something else. The talk of “our lives are occurring in parallel dimensions” and “self actualizations” and that type of circular metaphysical talk actually manifests. At that point, I was reading a totally different book. This is where the book slid into a different genre. Horror. Perhaps Sci-Fi. It was interesting. I wanted to know what would happen to all of these people but man did I not expect those last hundred pages. I can't help but not love the horror/sci-fi genre- it's just not me. I like my fiction to be based in reality, but hey now- this woman write.

a lot of people compare this book to bunny...... but let's not insult mona awod like that. this book is trying way too hard to say something that's already been said a million different ways. the convoluted metaphors didn't do much for me and when the only 2 likable characters were killed off i almost DNFd. i usually love weird books but this one just feels way too pretentious for my taste.