The Change Room

Karen Connelly is a beautiful writer and if this book hadn't been so filled with sex scenes and whiny, privileged white folk, I probably would have enjoyed it immensely. But it was, so I didn't.

There were descriptive passages in here that were so well-crafted and evocative, lesser mortals might weep. But so much of it involved extramarital ecstasy that it quickly become tiresome and, truthfully, I skipped over a good part of the second half of the book and didn't feel like I missed anything. I would happily read more of Connelly's work, provided it isn't more thinly disguised erotica.

Thank you to Penguin Random House for the free review copy.