My husband hated how the narrator announced too often, ‘I’m Freddy Pelu!’ whereas I found that there were a number of odd descriptions of the race of a character, a sense that Greer wants to do right and be correct about writing in these fraught times but isn’t quite sure how to do so. The other thing is that I loved (and was surprised) by the mystery of the narrator of the first book losing this tension felt a bit unsatisfying. There were some fun parts that made me laugh, but I suppose I wasn’t charmed in the same way as being freshly introduced to Arthur Less. I didn’t find the American adventures quite as compelling as his international ones. I wasn’t opposed to a sequel to ‘Less’ but what would it bring to be new, to be engaging? I love Greer’s writing, and find it both immensely readable and at times, simply beautiful. I loved ‘Less’ so much that I guess four stars is a fall from five.
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