association-list

Green fol­lows the gen­eral trend of Jay’s work over the last sev­eral books, as his tech­ni­cal chops con­tinue to improve. This is a solid offer­ing with a strong first person voice. That it didn’t really push my but­tons is more on me than on the author. The author more or less did what he was set­ting out to do, but most of what was being done I didn’t really care about. I’d have pre­ferred it if there were less time spend in the narrator’s child­hood and less in her head, but it would not have been the same book at all if those things were true.

I thought that the related story here was stronger, but both are worth reading.