I received this book via NetGalley. This did not effect my rating or review.
Did Not Finish-40 percent
I tried. This book was pretty bad. I ended up disliking the main character, Victoria and could not get into it. I know this was a black comedy, but I just went, okay this is not my cup of tea. At all. I thought at times she had to be a psychopath.
“Bookworm” follows Victoria, who we quickly find out is not happily married to her husband Eric. She goes to her favorite café and likes to imagine who people really are instead of what they present to the rest of the world. When she goes to the cafe though, she ends up seeing a man who is reading the same novel she is, which she then decides mean it’s fate and they are supposed to be together. Aside: I am really happy when I saw that one guy reading “The Da Vinci Code” when I was in my 20s and I was too, I did not engage with him. Anyway, the book just follows Victoria as she imagines the many ways she can get to be with café book man.
Look this book was only 280 something pages and I could not get through it. It just dragged. I was not rooting for Victoria. Girl, get a damn divorce.
And there’s a whole plot that Victoria floats away at night (no I am not explaining it, read the book if you want to know) and I just couldn’t get into it. I do think that Victoria, like many of us daydreams about things. And I thought it was kind of interesting because the tv show “Kevin Can F**k Himself” played with some of these types of things (the good wife who realizes what a POS her husband is and that very few seemed tuned into). She just reads to me like a reverse Walter Mitty character.
No idea what happens in the end and too many books that I am reading to go back and find out.