PositiveFull Stop... like watching someone play a choose your own adventure mystery game. But here it’s like there’s a line between the game and real life but it’s hard to find ... Moshfegh blends certain details into multiple possible explanations for the events in Vesta’s mystery. This gives the book a slightly paranoid feel throughout but it also makes a reader wonder if certain lines in the novel give away what’s really happening ... a mystery novel written about how to write a mystery novel and the outlined events have some of that real terse and pulpy thriller-like tension of a mystery novel ... The story allows itself its jokes, it’s funny sometimes ... a little Bolaño-ish with a hint of Ann Quin. It’s charmingly pulpy, a little bit noir ... I don’t mean to compare Moshfegh to be reductive or anything. I’m trying to refer to Moshfegh’s greatness, her own style, her ability to do a lot and address a lot in a narrative that can seem more simple than it is.