I finished this audiobook, even though I didn't care for the author's reading (her voice is better suited to read YA books) nor the characters, because I kept hoping for a brilliant denouement à la Gone Girl or even the first book I read by Goldberg, Bee Season. But in the end, we are left with simply an unsatisfying psychological study whose ending does not definitively answer the one question that we all hope is answered at the outset of the book. Mixed feelings about this one. Better than a 2, but not fulfilled enough to be a 3. Wonderful premise, parts of it were beautiful and wistful and thought-provoking. About the nature of memory, willfully forgetting parts of yourself and your story, about the little cruelties that children try on. But just not fully executed. Too descriptive, wandering, seemed more self indulgent than anything - like an unedited diary.
What do You think about Böse Freundin (2000)?
Oh the horrors of preteen girls. Brought me right back.
—Occam
Drawn out. Unsatisfying and confusing ending. Meh...
—DeadWood94
