Lina's Reviews > Blue Graffiti

I feel bad writing this review, since I kindly received this eARC through NetGalley, but in the name of being honest, I simply did not like it.

Let’s start with a positive, I think this book had a clear tone it was going for and stuck to it. Very meandering, small town, and low stakes.

Which leads me to my biggest criticism which was the plot. To me, nothing really happened in this book, and since it’s almost 400 pages, that makes it a bit of a drag to get through. The majority of this book is the main character contemplating about his life in this small town, Johnston and thinking about the people that live in this small town.

The writing didn’t particularly stand out to me either and the main character was not someone I connected with all that much, since his main interests were drinking, smoking and Johnston.

I’m sad I didn’t enjoy this more but I do think this is a book that could work for those ho want a low stakes small town literary fiction.