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A short novel with a Russian teen attending a low ranked English boarding school. No midnight feasts, instead the girls featured are obsessed with dieting and weight loss. I feel like Thomas was going for satire here but it didn‘t quite land for me. There was also a mystery aspect, but it felt underdone.

I‘m counting this for the Frenemies category for #Booked2021 Fall Edition. That wasn‘t the theme of the book but there were instances of it.

4🌟This twisted tale reminded me of Heathers a bit except in the digital age. The boarding school setting was intriguing, and it set up well to showcase the toxicity of diet culture and the strive for perfection among young girls, tieing in social media's pressures too. Theres a lot going on under the surface in this novel.Thomas has written a terrifying approach on power and manipulation that I wont soon forget! #bookreview #bookstagram #bookblog

9-27-20: My 76th finished book of 2020! Another story I just couldn‘t get into. Shallow girls at a boarding school, eating disorders, social media....there was a mystery that could have been very interesting if it had been fleshed out more. ⭐️⭐️ #oligarcy #scarlettthomas 📖#️⃣7️⃣6️⃣

Fizzy, intelligent writing. Flat somewhat interchangeable characters. Nearly no plot.

On cold rainy days we read orange books #happyaccident

Good. Shows the effect of social media and peer pressure on teenage girls to be thin. Even though this story has a powerful message to portray it lacks plot and structure. This is not the Scarlett Thomas I know and love as her other stories such a The End of Mr Y and Pop Co were so rich in story and detail that were well researched that this book lets her down.

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Scarlett Thomas is a really interesting author - excited to read she has something new ....

https://lithub.com/scarlett-thomas-on-the-tricky-work-of-writing-the-unsayable/

“Oligarchy' is about girls in their mid-teens in an English boarding school. Natasha, or “Tash,“ has a wealthy Russian father whom she only recently met, and she has been sent to this odd school in England. Takes a hairpin turn into horror at the end and Thomas doesn't quite manage to pull it together. #arc #Netgalley Full review at https://www.librarything.com/work/23154454/reviews/177117486