Nur auf wenigen Seiten greift die Autorin unglaublich viele kontroverse Themen/Probleme unserer aktuellen Zeit auf und zieht sie so ins Extreme, dass das Buch einen dauerhaft verfolgt. Besonders einzigartig fand ich den Schreibstil. So einfach und trotzdem so fesselnd mit vielen gedankenanregenden Metaphern und Fragen. Die Protagonistin war komplex und erschreckend echt und impulsiv. Trotzdem blieb sie bis kurz vor Ende nach außen(!) hin stumpf. Man musste einfach weiterlesen. Es geht um Kapitalismus, Eskapismus, die moderne Gesellschaft, Depression und zwischen den Zeilen wahrscheinlich noch vieles mehr.

Couldn’t finish this one… what’s Roxanne gay talking about saying that this novel is good at creating tension??? For whom? It was a brick to me. Superficial, obvious, predictable… I also work in tech but I’m not in the US and being so dissociated and alienated is a tragedy, but the way this is told here also feels very fake and constructed to me, or perhaps that’s how it is in the US. On top, this black stain floating in the character’s range of vision felt also like a figure trying to connect with other genres or make the story interesting or metaphorical but to me it was just made it harder to swallow…

So, at first I found the idea of a black hole as a synonym for depression really good but it was mentioned every few sentences - and really, if she felt that way since she was a child, why don't you get treated? I could not like the main character because she is very passive, she never DOES anything, all the stuff that's happening to her and she never even tries to change something; okay she is depressed so obviously that is hard/maybe not possible for her. I just really couldn't get into it/didn't feel connected to the character at all.