A review by bookstorian
Green Dot by Madeleine Gray

4.0

I spotted this read during our Book Crawl last year became even more intrigued when Zara raved about it on the Shameless podcast. 

+Narrative style. It was snappy, honest and addictive. I really just wanted to keep reading it, it was like a car crash, I just couldn't look away. The character knew what they were doing was wring but they did it anyway.
+Enjoyed the modern pop culture references littered throughout. 
+There were few characters to keep track of, especially loved the father daughter relationship. 

-There was a few things left unsaid or unfinished that I felt were important for character development. I understand why the decision was made to not share them (highly recommend listening to the Shameless Book Club episode that interviews Madeleine Gray if you're curious about this)
-The ending. It just didn't sit right with me and wasn't the closure that I needed

"But en masse the whole thing is pathetic- the men in suits buying takeaway coffees, rushing across the street to get into the office before nine; the forced smiles between colleagues who both happen to be reaching for the last bagel; the fact that we all read Marx in first-year uni; or if not, at least a paragraph or so of Walter Benjamin was relayed to us by a stoned high-school paramour, and we lay on the lawns outside our schools or between tutorials, and we never thought that after this hiatus we too would end up cogs in the machine, and grateful to be so, and grateful to get home to Netflix." (pg60-61)