Down the Rabbit Hole

This work, a mere 70 pages, has been showered with praise but left me utterly cold. The first, and main, problem is the narration by a clever child. To me, such narrators are always just short of unendurable, Holden Caulfield being the prime example. To this unpleasant child, who has a penchant for denigrating "faggots," add a wisp of a plot that lacks any hook, and you're left with a dirty, grubby little thing and a reason to forget the name Juan Pablo Villalobos.