Ranjini Shankar's Reviews > Tripping Arcadia

Clearly I’m in the minority on this one but I really didn’t enjoy this book. It was confusing and unbelievable at its best and boring at its worst and I’m still not 100% sure why all of it happened to begin with.

Tripping Arcadia follows Lena who is desperate for a job and ends up as a Physicians Assistant for a very rich family who has a sickly son. This rich family loves to throw parties and over indulge in drugs and alcohol and expect Lena to help organize and manage the results of this without letting things get so out of hand that the cops come. At one of these parties she realizes the father of the family is the reason her dad is out of a job and decides (abruptly and with no further research) to poison him. This has a lot of unforeseen consequences and leads her down a dark and twisted path.

I have no idea what point the author was trying to make with any of the characters. They’re all two dimensional and almost caricatures of themselves. The ending is odd and rushed as compared to the rest of the book and leaves you confused. Clearly this was not the book for me.