- I really didn’t connect with the protagonist.
- The prose is pretentious yet the story is slight.
- I didn’t understand the main character’s issues with her father at all.
- The narrator seemed unreliable — in more ways than one.
- Are you sure this is nonfiction? It seems…embellished.
- The story just isn’t the least bit compelling.
- The author seems to have been inspired by Jonathan Franzen.
- The protagonist lack self-awareness.
- There are a lot of holes in the narrative.
- I found the villain very sympathetic.
- It all kind of falls apart in the third act.
- The ending is so tragic it veers into comedy.
- I hate to ask this but I have to — did you plagiarize parts of the story? Or does it just seem familiar because it’s so generic?
- To be perfectly honest, it’s a mess. It’s all a total mess.
- At this point, I think it’s best to throw everything out and start over completely.
Little Old Lady Comedy 