Lark Benobi's Reviews > The Girl at the Door

A pregnant woman answers a knock on the front door; it's a younger woman, who tells the pregnant woman that the father of her unborn child has raped her. It seems like a promisingly charged premise for a story beginning, but the novel is set in a place so clinical and abstract that reading it felt more like I was reading a case study than a novel.

I'm also reminded (once again) that I can no longer tolerate reading stories written from the point-of-view of a skeezy man, which alternating chapters are, here. I'm done with that.