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With that title, cover and premise I was immediately drawn to this book, so maybe my expectations were a little too high.
The ideas behind this book are great but I think it needed more work. For something that's supposed to be about someone's discovery that they haven't been the best to themselves or others the introspection is conspicuously lacking. Arguments and tensions are at most hinted at but largely it just seems like the guy was a bit critical maybe and while that doesn't necessarily make for the best relationships that seems a little underwhelming. His progression would have benefited from his character being better established.
Stylistically it was rather plain and different elements of the book came across as disjointed, if the writing had been more stylized it would have came across as more intentional however because the style was what it was it came across as somewhat rushed. It felt like the book never fully committed to being one thing or another and that's one of the areas in which it really fell short.
Jimmy's relationship with Beatrice was really the strongest aspect of the book and the one aspect that felt like it was given appropriate time to develop.
I also hate it when a book ends in a "surprise, there was no stake to all of this because it was all in his head" kind of way and that's what happened in this one so that really didn't help my overall enjoyment of the book.
I received an eARC of this book, many thanks to BookGoSocial on Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book.
