DNF @ 42%
I can’t believe I’m actually doing this, and for this book, but I just can’t do it anymore. The cover says it was a bestseller, but I’m having a hard time believing that. Maybe they did what I did, and bought it off vibes alone and then never finished it or hated it. It’s just so unpleasant to read, and bad weird things are going on. The part where the book officially lost me, I think, was when the main character’s inner monologue went on this strange fantasy about how she wanted her cat to lick some sort of food off of her back, which was followed by her musing that she understood about the (theoretical) woman she’d heard about who let her dog lick her where dogs absolutely should not lick someone! And don’t you know it’s not animal abuse because the dog wanted to do it!!!
I’m sorry, no. No, thank you please. GTFO of here.
Aside from the bad weirdness, the story here is just one I’m not interested in. It’s just basically a family drama in disguise and I do not as a rule like family dramas, unless they are extremely well done, which this wasn’t. Also, the main character is not fun to read from and I do not like her. This woman goes to grief meetings for people who have lost pets but her cat is still alive! I am insulted on behalf of all cat ladies that this book is trying to represent us.
I reject this representation.
Anyway, I did read read the epilogue and everything seems to have ended well, I just have absolutely no desire to take the journey to get there. Apparently this book was about pet grief? Who knew. Not me because I didn’t finish the book.