Penance

Not what I thought I was getting myself into. Parts of it were really horrible and hard to stomach. It's all very meta so I'm unsure whether it was Eliza Clarke's writing I wasn't a fan of, or the fictional journalist's...in either case, I found the writing pretty barren. Despite these things, I found the critique of society’s obsession with true crime and the exploration of its ethics to be pretty clever and interesting.

I loved Boy Parts, so I will definitely read from Eliza Clark again, but this one didn’t work for me. It reminds me of The Biography of X by Catherine Lacey - both are a little too meta and ultimately too unpleasant and boring to read. It’s not worth it for the point being made.