Penance

A Novel

Paperback, 434 pages

English language

Published June 22, 2023 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-06-332785-6
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3 stars (5 reviews)

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I was not ready

3 stars

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.

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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.

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