these violent delights by micah nemerever

Paul was a psycho from the get go I couldn’t. I ended up skimming 50% of this book and stopped caring if I was missing – not missing some gap in explanation. I have friends parents who won’t do that now, in 2020, happily abandoning their children.ĭespite their immense privilege (Paul too, are you serious?) they were so melofuckingdramatic. She’s a cool mom, now she’s a mom in the 70s surrounded by a bunch of homophobes standing by her sons side? Very cool mom. But Paul’s mom is actually cool af and is like… Stay for dinner? But okay here’s the thing, sex… gay sex straight sex- they were seventeen and she was letting her kid have sex under her roof constantly. I wanted to like the main premise, two boys who fall in love in the 70s. I also hated literally all of the characters, except Audrey bc who doesn’t love the hungover sister hanging around. I get that was the point, these kids were fucking pretentious, but it was such an eye roll. Again, the lack of explanation felt pretentious, as did some of the writing. I didn’t love the way it was written and the seriousness gave me a headache. Was it their plan or their relationship? Does it matter? Paul goes to an insane asylum, or where ever the hell they’re sending him away, where he belongs. He leaves a note for Paul with the chess match (first move circled), obviously ‘doomed from the beginning’ is the easiest message this book laid out. Few more days: They think Julian committed suicide, but he didn’t… at least in his apt. They try to run away, Paul’s trying to commit suicide together, julians like nah, so Paul almost kills him, but then is like nah and goes home. Post police: Paul’s family refused to let him see Julian. Just saying, their plan technically worked. They murder someone and get out of it bc of some lawyers and lack of motive. I kept feeling like I was missing something and would go back, and then realize no… about very mundane shit too. Like most of this book, everything was poorly explained.

These violent delights by micah nemerever