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Tellulah Darling
Tellulah Darling writes YA & New Adult romantic comedy because her first kiss sucked and she's compensating.
Sassy girls. Swoony boys. What could go wrong?
Going crazy trying to remember title
Bad Monkeys was one of those books that I read several years ago and then could only remember the weirdest details about. Sadly, the title was NOT one of those details. When I mentioned assassins, abductions, clowns, Las Vegas, The Ant Farm and hallucinogenic drugs, people wondered what I was on, since no one I knew had read the damn thing except my husband.
I happened to stumble across it again a couple weeks ago and realized two things: a) it's written by Matt Ruff who wrote one of my all-time fav books Fool On The Hill and b) I had to read it. So how did it go?
Well, I liked it but I didn't love it. Which is exactly what I now recall was my original feeling about it. The twists and turns were great. I was engaged with the story and the protagonist and yet there was a kind of arms length enjoyment about it. I never fell into love with it and when I closed the book my reaction was more, "huh. Yeah, okay, now I remember it." Not so much "wow!"
I'm glad I re-read it, if only for sanity's sake.
I happened to stumble across it again a couple weeks ago and realized two things: a) it's written by Matt Ruff who wrote one of my all-time fav books Fool On The Hill and b) I had to read it. So how did it go?
Well, I liked it but I didn't love it. Which is exactly what I now recall was my original feeling about it. The twists and turns were great. I was engaged with the story and the protagonist and yet there was a kind of arms length enjoyment about it. I never fell into love with it and when I closed the book my reaction was more, "huh. Yeah, okay, now I remember it." Not so much "wow!"
I'm glad I re-read it, if only for sanity's sake.
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