jayvall reviewed Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky
Review of 'Very Nice' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
I regret each and every moment I spent reading this.
One day critics will stop calling books "hilarious" as code for "there's nothing but jerks in this." One day authors will stop writing books populated with characters, each one worse than the last. The single person in this book who was not an asshole was the uber driver who picked Zahid up at the airport, and that's likely only because the author didn't spend enough time on her to make her an asshole as well.
At about 30% in, I knew this book was not working for me, but it was easy to read and fairly short so I stuck with it. Again, I regret that choice. The entire story is pointless, there's no resolution, and had I not been reading on a kindle, I would have thrown the book against a wall at the last page.