Debut novelist Madeleine Gray offers a distinctive sharp millenial voice in Green Dot, the tale of a young woman obsessed with an older male colleague. At turns savage and comic, the perspective of Hera, plunging down a path known by all, including herself, as disastrous while longing for trueness, proved to be intoxicating. Written in that pellmell first person voice so loved of many modern authors, the book is a pleasurable yet poignant confection to read. I found the climax missed an opportunity to grant the hero wisdom or closure or … or something, and the overall plot could have been fiercer, but I did relish the evening taken to devour Green Dot.
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