CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian's Reviews > The Adult

I'm disappointed because I was hoping I might like this as much as WE DO WHAT WE DO IN THE DARK by Michelle Hart, a book I loved about a first year university student in a relationship with an older woman, as much as that story has been told many times. I especially thought I would appreciate it being Canadian (It's set in Toronto).

But I'm finding it overwritten and a bit pretentious, almost too formulaic in a literary fiction kind of way? Like, the first person perspective sounds like someone who has an MFA, not an 18-year-old who just arrived in the big city.

I think I might have loved this if I'd been able to read it closer to the protagonist’s age, though.