Insatiable: ‘A frank, funny account of 21st-century lust' Independent

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There's a moment when I'm half dozing on a lounger, and I'm just aware of Sasha tucking a strand of hair behind my ear before balancing a straw hat on my head, and something tender is stirred up inside for a second, but I shift, and it goes away. Maybe there are thousands of people who have threesomes with their colleges all the time, and I'm the prude for wondering whether it's odd. They have money and nice stuff from John Lewis but drink cheap instant coffee (always a give away) like their cheap instant group sex. She has a difficult relationship with her parents, who sound emotionally abusive, so she 'falls in love' with an older married couple and joins them in their grim-sounding sex parties. Funny, filthy … Buchanan offers astute social observation, while the development of Violet as an ardent yet vulnerable heroine to root for makes her a millennial counterpart to Jilly Cooper’s Bella or Octavia.

Overall, this was a millennial novel that matches gritty reality with dreams come true and then finding it out it wasn’t what it seems. I remember wondering what was wrong with me, whether I had won some sort of life competition, whether being sad was simply an inevitable tax on being safe, whether I should think myself lucky, lucky, lucky.I guess this is because she’s aiming for a Sally Rooney audience – another committer of crimes against sex scenes – rather than a Harry Potter NC-17 on AO3 tag audience. She's the typical naive "hot mess" just trying to get by, living small while dreaming big, and it's quite endearing. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

And 39-year-old Sasha, making fun of her for being a snowflake - by most people's definition she is actually a millennial (unless the book is set further in the past, but even then, would a young Gen X-er be that obsessed with millennials? One of Violet’s new friends suggests that this isn’t an equal relationship, but she’s a plaything in a toxic relationship. When we were in Ibiza, we could be chatting away about trashy books or crisps or crap telly, and you’d be making all of these insightful comments without realising. I couldn't care one bit about a single one-dimensional character - least of all the protagonist who has less charisma than my toenail and is just the latest in a dull trope of 'hedonistic' 20 somethings.

The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and.

Violet is 26, has recently ended her engagement, is living in a questionable flat with noisy housemates she doesn't know and hates her job. I wonder whether she can truly love anyone, or whether she just uses one strong feeling to distract herself from another. I am not a massive fan of sex scenes in books, but of course the subject itself always makes for a interesting read. We follow her through the little relatable moments, the desperation and loneliness of being in your twenties, with magical moments such as eating Reduced To Clear birthday cakes for dinner because you're broke, contemplating the importance of dresses, or writing stream of consciousness journals at the office pretending you're working. I finished this on the 5th of January, is that too early to find what I think will be my favourite book of 2021 already?I find it very funny that many of the one-star reviews for this book are about the sex being very un-sexy. And there are some funny lines that made me grin: 'the only vaguely artistic thing about Alan is that he looks like what would happen if Gilbert ate George' - ha! I was doing my job as a young woman, which meant that no one could accuse them of not doing theirs properly.