Something New Under the Sun

I was up for going a little higher on the review, but I feel like the book just didn't have any closure. I don't mean “imagine what comes next,” more like “I'm mid-story, dot the point across, and may as well end.” I really wish I could have connected with any of the characters or the story, but everything just seemed sad and a bit hopeless.

In any case, the writing was beautiful, and the connections and underlying message was strong. But I sure won't be recommending the book or looking for others like it. I just didn't connect.

A Californian fever dream, parched for water, high on conspiracy theories, overcome with climate change depression, and set in the middle of a corrupt Hollywood movie set. Let by a drugged-out former child-star gumshoe and a clueless washed-down writer. I drifted in and out of this narrative, got lost like its characters, sometimes felt like I saw grandness, sometimes felt it saw mirages. A wild trip, somewhere between prophetic and frustrating.