I could not finish this book.
Too many references to American personalities and television shows - I had no idea who these people were and why they’d be such an influence on the character. ‘I’ve watched MSNBC religiously’, ‘You raised me on a complex diet of Chelsea Handler and Sarah Silverman’, ‘Number 45 had just happened’, ‘There was a framed poster of Kristen Wiig hanging above my bed’, ‘I was surer about the lyrics to the Debbie Downer jingle that I was of the national anthem’….and so it goes! I was totally lost, and obviously not the intended audience. Not to mention Saturday Night Live, which is not on most Australian’s ‘must watch’ list.
The author is Australian, and that confused me even further. Obviously she’s writing for an American audience, not an Australian one!