150 pages in I wanted to scream that this needs to be longer, but turns out this has the perfect length, actually. Juicy, tense, insane, amazing little book!!

3.5 ⭐️

hat mich echt enttäuscht, musste mich zwingen es fertig zu lesen die story hat potenzial aber ich fands leider schlecht geschrieben und die handlung hat mich auch nicht überzeugt :((

Whenever I get the chance to read this from my library, I keep pushing it back for some reason. Now, I think it was because I had hope for it and I didn't want to be disappointed. And I was and was not. First person narratives are still such a <i>drag</i>. I need to understand why I feel that way. The narrator and main character – whose name is revealed late in the story as a crucial moment between herself and her obsession so I won't spoil it – is undergoing a teen pregnancy, is biracial, and depressed. Her narrative voice is direct, laced with flashbacks of her dad and it follows, in the way one experiences sudden flashes of memory, that these flashbacks are sudden and out of nowhere. I don't exactly know what I mean by this but <i>Pizza Girl</i> is such a contemporary American novel. I think it's the alcoholism, the small-town energy (even though they live in Los Angeles), and this bitter, irritating, nauseating feeling of discontent. The restlessness that is the essential energy of the story. But mostly the alcoholism. I love the cover though. Los Angeles and vaporwave go well together.