Ale weirdo

I hate unreliable narrators!


Or do I? 😏

The true crime was this book's length

This book doesn't know what it wants to be... was it a fictionalized true crime novel? A story about teenage girls who communicate with spirits? A small town with the haves and have nots? A disgraced journalist trying to get his career back? The political ramifications of Brexit? A girl who is obsessed with teen mass murderers? True crime podcasters? Or just a group of mean girls who went too far?None of it worked for me. I kept putting the book down and it got to the point where I had to write ...

*kylie minogue voice* penance, penance, i hear it and i know

1) incredible, 2) if you were a tumblr girlie in 2014 you will take psychic damage, and 3) many thanks to google's autofill function for reassuring me that i'm not the only person who thought the cherry creek massacre was real

Although Clark’s second novel Penance takes quite a different approach to her first one (don’t go into this expecting Boy Parts 2.0), her debut gives enough of a hint that she knows how to make a novel like this work.Relayed by a journalist using witness accounts, interviews, news articles, podcast transcripts, tumblr posts, and correspondence, Penance tells the story of the shocking and gruesome murder among teenagers in a sleepy northern seaside town on the eve of the Brexit vote. Needless to ...

I’m definitely damaged from being on 2014 era tumblr, but these girls are objectively worse

this is the final boss of unreliable narrators.as someone who abhors true crime, i found reading this exploration of how evil it can be and who has the right to tell a story and what even constitutes "true" extremely satisfying. and it does so brilliantly, through an unreliable crooked journalist narrator, through the lens of true-crime fandom, through clever workings of sympathy and fact.i know it can be upsetting to explore our guilty pleasures, but i really recommend this to everyone who "ind...

i loved boy parts and i love eliza clark, so it's not a surprise that this book was perfect for me. such a dark and compelling narrative. clark packs so much into the book (which doesn't feel dense at all)—toxic internet culture, the dangers of true crime and the dangers of subjectivity in telling an objective story, and about girlhood as well. as someone who was deeply entrenched in the canals of 2010s tumblr, this was such an accurate representation.full review to come.thank you to harper for ...