Nightbitch

Although my sentiment towards this movie was simple, I really struggled with how to say it here. I liked this book, overall. However, I also spent so much of the book teetering back and forth from being intrigued to being completely over the main character.

The premise really is as simple as everyone said it was. A housewife thinks she's turning into a dog. Of course, the themes become incredibly clear almost as soon as you get into the book and start seeing her life for what it is, but there really was something about this that kept me curious. It's about motherhood, and about losing one's self to the duties of it. It's about finding community, it's about letting out the literal beast within you when it needs to say something. It's about expression, really. And I liked all of these themes and how they were explored.

However, I would say that the book did often spend too much time languishing in it, which is why I am a little soured by it at the same time. While I did like the book I also felt like I spent an agonizing amount of time with the protagonist just struggling to figure out what was really going on in her situation. it made some of the middle of the story seem, honestly, pointless. We treaded the same sort of water for so much of the book, not getting any clearer. I see now that that may have been because it's how introspectiveness sometimes feels, but it did make the book seem at times lacking focus. As well, while I liked the book and its "twist" ending in hindsight, I did feel something akin to a groan without audibly groaning when I saw where we were going. On reflection I really appreciate that, but contextually it did feel a bit lame in the moment.

Overall I absolutely would recommend this book and I do think it was fun to read. I think I just wish it spent so much of the middle section saying new things or solving plotlines rather than spinning its wheels a bit much for me.