Comfort Me with Apples

Catherynne Valente

2021

August, 2023

5.5/10

The book moves very quickly which works for the story. Overall, it is very simple, but the approach makes the book very captivating.

It felt a little overdone at the end, however. The idea was good, but the overall execution could have been much better. The overly-poetic writing felt forced at times with too much "__ was __ like a __ ." The dialogue also fell apart, in my opinion.

And once the story "revealed itself," it all felt a bit too exaggerated. Although the idea was certainly very good.