Love Me Back

What to make of Love Me Back? It's a novel that asks not necessarily to be liked but to be reckoned with. It has some scorchingly good writing for a debut. While Marie, a Dallas waitress, feels less like a fully formed character and more of a vessel for all of the service industry's drugs and sex an......more

www.shelfnotes.com review Dear Reader, Boy, this was gritty. It made me blush, which is pretty hard to do. I love Palahniuk, so this should have been a cake-walk. In truth, it was but I could see SO many readers turn away from this book due to the language and sleazy situations. As dirty as this book......more

I don’t like books like this anymore, books where your protagonist should know better but doesn’t and so she goes around and around making the same shitty decisions and banging 30 coworkers or restaurant patrons in a very short period of time. Merritt Tierce is that kind of writer, the strong and ca......more

I'm still not quite sure what to make of this little book. On the one hand, I admire its unapologetic rawness and its truly terrific writing -- but I still need a little bit of plot to really sustain my interest in a book, even if it is short. Instead of a novel, Love Me Back reads very much like a s......more