Old Enough: A Novel

Many more thoughts to come post book club discussion next week, but I definitely wish I had read the book before listening to episode 32 of The Real Stuff “My ex-BFF published a book about me.” I think I still would have disliked the mc, but I don't think I would have noticed so many red flags on a first read before digging into it. It would have been nice to go in with a clean slate and then add the additional context in after I got to digest the story a bit.

I think the audio narrator made a lot of the dialogue sound more juvenile than it would have read on the page, but a good chunk of the dialogue was also just cringey/juvenile. I get it was shooting for the unpolished cadence of chatting with friends, talking to a crush, or tripping over your words, but it missed the mark often enough to be notable.