This book is about Eliot Lamb who is out with his Uni mates as they celebrate their last night at Oxford University. They go to a pub, a bar and then a club. In between Eliot reminisces about his three-years there, which means he reminisces mainly about girl trouble.
If I were to mark it as if it were a thesis I would mark it thus:
Good points:
There is some good stuff in this book. I like the author’s way of describing things. Straight from the off there are good descriptions, e.g. “Scott with his question-mark nose, Jack with his inverted-comma eyebrows, Sanjay with his square-bracket ears…”
I like the humour in the repartee between characters.
Bad points:
There is a lot of swearing and smut in the book, a bit too much for my liking.
It gets a bit confusing in places. Are the ideas conveyed too clever for me?
The bits with literary references went over my head in a lot of places.
Ella’s ending is unfinished.
Overall:
Frustrating – with more work this could have been better as there are snippets of story here that work well and which had me wanting to read on, but then as a whole it wasn’t as coherent.
(I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed here.)
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