Boy Parts

By: Eliza Clark

Narrated by: Eliza Clark

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol and extreme cinema.

The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina's relationship with her obsessive best friend and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention....

Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the 21st century.

©2020 Eliza Clark (P)2020 Audible, Ltd

It feels like a feminist take on American Psycho

Vocal performance is excellent, and the book is well written. It takes from American Psycho, but I enjoy the feminist outlook and graphic scenes. You will hate the character, but you will also be mesmerized by her anger and callousness. The descent into madness with no consequences is entertaining. It's worth the listen.

Good not great, felt Irina’s character escalated so quickly

I liked this a lot, amazing reader but felt like the story was gonna focus on several longstanding relationships and that she wasn’t gonna sleep with them. Her relationship with Eddie from Tesco seemed nonsensical to me

spiraling character, manipulator, self destructive

The main character is unlikable, unreliable, and spiraling. She manipulates and abuses everyone around her, yet she captivates / traps people in her web, just like you'll be captivated when listening to this story. At times the narrator annoyed me with the high pitched voices but overall it was an entertaining listen. At times it felt repetative with the whole drug/alcohol binges and what not. At the end, I felt that we really don't know what's true in the entire narrative, because it seems like she fell off the deep end before the story even starts. I don't know if that makes sense, but overall I liked it!

Fun- weird

Fun listen but I was hoping for a bigger ending. Not a waste of a credit but I guess I feel a little bit like I just want to know what happens… the ending isn’t really that…

Hauntingly Visceral

I didn’t know what to expect from Boy Parts. It was beautifully dark and twisted to the point beyond reality. Like Christian Bates, you’re left wondering if she ever did the terrible thing that follows her. Impeccably voiced and performed by the author.