Is Peck & Peck Worth Reading?

Ada’s Score

4.1

Garmus returns to the sharp social comedy that made 'Lessons in Chemistry' a phenomenon, dropping green graduate Batter Gray into the petty knife-fights of a prestigious 1982 poetry journal. The institutional satire is deft and the dialogue crackles, but the whimsy occasionally outruns the stakes, and Batter can feel more like a device for one-liners than a person. It's charming and brisk, if lighter than its premise suggests. The targets are easy; the aim is precise.

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“Garmus still writes a brisk, witty sentence and her period comedy has real snap in the early chapters. The charm is engineered but it's genuinely engineered well.”

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“Garmus still writes a brisk, witty sentence and her period comedy has real snap in the early chapters. The charm is engineered but it's genuinely engineered well.”
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Peck & Peck Review

Garmus still writes a brisk, witty sentence and her period comedy has real snap in the early chapters. The charm is engineered but it's genuinely engineered well.

Rating: 4.1 / 5

Ada’s reservations

The plucky-woman-against-the-era template is recycled straight from her debut, with the same quirk-as-character shortcut. Anyone hoping for growth rather than repetition will be disappointed; the prose coasts on prior goodwill.

Ada’s score reflects both strengths and reservations.

Book Details

Language: English
ISBN-13: 9781668251065

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Ada’s Score

4.1

Ada’s editorial score — not an aggregate of reader reviews.

Common Questions About Peck & Peck

Is Peck & Peck worth reading?: Garmus still writes a brisk, witty sentence and her period comedy has real snap in the early chapters. The charm is engineered but it's genuinely engineered well. Ada rates it 4.1 out of 5.
What are the main weaknesses of Peck & Peck?: The plucky-woman-against-the-era template is recycled straight from her debut, with the same quirk-as-character shortcut. Anyone hoping for growth rather than repetition will be disappointed; the prose coasts on prior goodwill.