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"Relationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving …

Review of 'The people we hate at the wedding' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

At some point I'm going to have to learn that when a review calls lit fic "hilarious" that that's code for "these people are terrible." This is maybe the 5th book I've read this year that's been hailed as "hilarious" only for me to discover it's been populated with completely shit characters. I hated each and every one of these characters right up until about 70% when I decided they were so terrible, they must have been written that way on purpose, and so I was not going to take any of them seriously. I was going to deliberately assume that the author was going out of his way to draw annoying, unlikeable, whiny, selfish, self-centered people, and that he was quite good at it. Once I made that decision, I found myself laughing at the things they did. So perhaps it was my fault all along for thinking I should take this book seriously. Deciding it was purposefully ridiculous was the only thing that saved it from getting 1 star.