/lit/ - Literature

>>18699069
This was not bad. I liked the setup more than the payoff, but still not bad. The second act twist made me cringe (two frens meet again) but that part did play out a bit better than I'd feared, and I liked that it proved to not be delusional and one-sided. But then and a few other times I felt the author was trying too hard and getting in the way of a great premise.

I have stared the sequel and while the highs aren't as high as in the first, it does seem to be more even and controlled. Unclear if that will hold up.

i'm less than a third in but this is really fucking annoying, every couple pages i have to stop reading for a second beacuse of how edgy it is, and the narrator is the worst offender. what do you guys think of it, i think i recall it being recommended here. the book starts with a comment about how the it was written in memory of the brave soldiers of the city and whatever so i thought the tone of it would be completely different i don't know

also it's fucking confusing that the city population is black, but the main character is white but at one point he mentions he has a skin disease, is he white or is it actually a skin disease?