BOOK 237: BOY PARTS: ELIZA CLARK

BOOK 237: BOY PARTS: ELIZA CLARK

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle.

Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina’s relationship with her obsessive best friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention…

Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.

(From Goodreads)

MY VERDICT: I was recommended this book by many people on instagram and pinterest. And it’s just not for me. Not only is the protagonist an unreliable narrator, but also unlikble but also I don’t believe her. I don’t buy her as a real person. I cant put my finger on why but there’s something missing from this book, it doesn’t go anywhere really other than describing things that are meant to shock us, but I didn’t find it shocking as it was so empty it wasnt something that I could believe. I have heard that the audiobook is better and gives more to the character but in my opinion it should be there in the reading.

I’m disappointed I didn’t enjoy this book more as so many people seem to, I wanted to like it, but I didn’t and so I can’t recommend it to you.