Ratings346
Average rating3.6
I definitely understand why people describe this book as a fever dream in many reviews. I think it's actually bit more layered then that and it's not quite as random and trippy as it may seem. It's one of those where if 10 people read it though you're going to get several different interpretations on what is really going on.
My brief interpretation was that Samantha was suffering from mental illness and a lot of what occurs in this book are a mixture of imagination and auditory/visual hallucination. Take for example on the bus where the grandma is reading the symptoms of schizophrenia and Samantha is responding yes I have that, down said checklist. Or when Rob's head explodes and the next day one of the girls responds with “so that's what you saw” etc.
I can appreciate how this story was told, but overall it's not really the type of writing or story I gravitate to. 3 bunnies out of 5 for it's cleverness though.