I Hate Everyone But You, Gaby Dunn, Allison Rankin
Ohhhh this book was so not my thing. I am not the target age group, for sure, but I’m not sure I would have been the target even then, despite being queer and having anxiety. It’s all hurry-hurry-hurry to have sex, worry about sororities, sleeping with teachers, getting drunk and high, and kicking off the drama. I found the characters unpleasant, the story predictable, and the voices insufficiently distinct from one another.
And when reviews shout about this encapsulating the college experience, I am just confused, because my college experience — albeit in Britain — involved a lot of work. Hard work. I didn’t have time to get drunk and high and have sex with random strangers, even if I’d wanted to (and I did not; my idea of a wild fun time was maxing out my library cards), and I don’t honestly know anyone who did — not this much time, anyway.
Just overall very much not for me. Nope nope nope.
Yikes! I’m sorry to hear that you didn’t enjoy this one. I read it a while back and thought it was interesting – some of it was a bit too much about sex, as you stated, so I definitely agree about that. I hope your next read is more up your alley!
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I think it’s probably a target audience thing, in part!