pickThis was a quick read for me, I couldn't put it down and finished it in two days. The storytelling is tight and uses multiple perspectives so it feels fresh with every chapter. While, for the most part, the pacing and characterization is flawless, the third act is weak. It feels as though Doyle had a different ending planned and was pushed to change it by the publisher.
pickA group of teenagers from the Dublin suburbs get wasted everyday to quell the feelings of the nothingness that the void/charade of the world we live in gives them, set against the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Talk about a just say no to drugs and alcohol book if I‘ve ever read one. I will admit I was laughing halfway through the book because the author was throwing a lot at the reader. But somehow the back half gets down to business and I 👇🏼
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This is probably the most disturbing book I ever read. I was saying “no, no, no, no....” all the way through it. It‘s 2003 and the three male protagonists have graduated from high school in Ireland. They‘re aimless and listless and each of them will take a different path to find something to fill the emptiness - drugs, love, violence. One million trigger warnings. Beautiful writing but I‘d rather not have it all in my head!
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