Reviews round-up
Look What You Made Me Do
by John Lanchester
6 of 8 critics positive
12 reviews: 6 positives, 1 mixed, 1 pan; 4 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“master of writing topical tales that entertain”
Book review: Lanchester is a master of writing topical tales that entertain
“darkly comic Look What You Made Me Do”
A torrid affair is exposed beyond the grave in John Lanchester’s darkly comic Look What You Made Me Do
“darkly funny vision of bitter London professionals”
John Lanchester’s personal venom
“dark and satisfying skewering of entitled boomers and ambitious millennials”
John Lanchester’s warped generational satire
“twisty, clever and gleefully nasty”
John Lanchester’s new novel is twisty, clever and gleefully nasty
“the plot is both implausible and predictable”
Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester review – a battle between millennials and boomers
“tired Ottolenghi gags masquerading as comedy”
Look What You Made Me Do review: tired Ottolenghi gags masquerading as comedy
Look What You Made Me Do — boomers vs millennials in John Lanchester’s London
Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester: a revenge story of Millennials versus Boomers
Verdicts are read from each outlet's own headline and summary; quotes are their words, credited and linked. Where a paywalled summary does not give the critic's view, we say so rather than guess. How it works.
