I generally try to give an author a couple of books before I put them on my Never Buy list. This makes 2 books from Katherine Center and she is officially on that list forever. I saw hints of problematic white feminism centring on a selfish Beckie who thinks she’s a gift to the world simply by existing in Happiness for Beginners. Those elements are that much more present in this novel. Plot: Becky (her actual name is Margaret) has never had an independent thought […]

If you like the line of books featuring women having a post-divorce/career crisis/death in the family life crisis by venturing out into exotic locations entirely unprepared and rocking it against literally all odds, you may like this book, though it is apparently darker than others. If you are more cynical about this sort of plot device, you will likely want to strangle everyone in this book. I didn’t hate everything about this book. Helen is 32 while our hero Jake is 22. When this sort of […]