So, this was recommended in a book group I’m part of.
I would like to start off by saying I am pretty fast reader. I finish 400 in 3 of 4 afternoons. This book took me way longer.
I was slightly enchanted by this thing…until I slept on it. The story is big on building scenery but light on actual plot. As a guy who likes inhabiting spaces(this goes for movies, too) I’m not too flummoxed by this but…I could tell Erin wanted me to care whatever plot. And I didn’t.
There are things that are supposed to shock but didn’t, there were moments where I was supposed to be incredibly sad and I wasn’t and there times I was supposed incredibly moved and I was stone faced.
I heard people praise the prose of this and I didn’t hate it but, I have read so much better.
The more I think about it, the less I like it.
3/5
by UnscarredVoice