Beneath the murder mystery and social media commentary is a novel deeply interested in visibility and desirability.
Whether you admire it may depend on your tolerance for morally abrasive protagonists and structurally chaotic psychological fiction.
It’s sharp, compulsively readable, deeply stressful in a good way, and unexpectedly emotionally perceptive beneath its chaotic surface.
This is less interested in the mechanics of competition and more concerned with what prolonged observation does to a person’s sense of self.