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Review: Model Home by Rivers Solomon
Title: Model Home Author: Rivers Solomon Publisher: MCD Books Length: 286 Pages Category: Psychological Horror Rating: 4 Stars At a Glance: Model Home is one of those books that people seem to either love or loathe, with very little middle ground. It’s that kind of story, one in which readers become frustrated with the telling and/or the characters, or become absorbed by and involved with…
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Trust no one--especially not him
Our Kind of Cruelty: A Novel by Araminta Hall (MCD Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26).
First, a word of warning: If stalking and obsessive, possessive relationships are a trigger for you, don’t read this book.
If, however, a good thriller with an unreliable narrator sounds like a pleasant way to spend a weekend, I can’t recommend Our Kind of Cruelty highly enough. Aramninta Hall’s debut reflects her feminist perspective in the most disturbing way: She gets inside the head of a sociopathic obsessive boyfriend and follows him to the end.
In other words, there’s more than one way to destroy the one you claim to love.
It’s rare for me to find a book that I just can’t put down. In fact, I generally read more than one book at a time, toggling between two or three over the course of a couple of days. This one was a “read straight through and become so obsessed it goes to the bathroom with you” book, though.
Mike has had a rough life, and risen above it, thanks to the last set of foster parents he had. When he meets Verity in college, he seems to have found it all: a future that looks bright with a wonderful woman by his side.
But there’s a dark edge here, and the real question throughout is how involved Verity is, truly, in what happens. That’s the central mystery, and the reader’s conclusion will depend on just how much weight to give Mike’s testimony. He is our narrator, after all, but trusting him? That might be a really big mistake.
ICB x SUPERIORITY BURGER: ? ? ? Mystery Gelato ? ? ? for Tamara Shopsin’s Arbitrary Stupid Goal. PARTY: July 18, 8-9pm at Superiority Burger (430 E. 9th St.) Free Ice Cream w/ book purchase or $3 donation to NY Public Library.
