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I was so bored at the beginning, middle and end. And agree, the I-just-graduated-from-creative-writing-school flowery prose left me skipping large paragraphs of pointless waffle.
I can’t think of any reason for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club to choose this book as their monthly pick other than that the author used to be an HBO executive and Reese was in Big Littles Lies on HBO, so maybe she knows her from that and did her a huge favor.
Agree, way too wordy making it hard to keep reading but I did and was disappointed
I can’t believe this book is a NY Times Bestseller!
I think Miranda's ending was for a sequel no doubt.. but I won't be reading it. Beth your review is spot on
The #1 takeaway I had from this book was that there was SO MUCH superfluous description... I swear, I learned more about flowers and plants than anything else. I found the read to be laborious.
100% agree, Beth. I made myself finish it because I wanted to figure out what the hype was. I would give this a 2.5, but I gave it a 3. None of the characters were likable. Also, maybe I'm a prude, but I can't imagine people getting naked so often...it seemed weird to me.
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I was so bored at the beginning, middle and end. And agree, the I-just-graduated-from-creative-writing-school flowery prose left me skipping large paragraphs of pointless waffle.
I can’t think of any reason for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club to choose this book as their monthly pick other than that the author used to be an HBO executive and Reese was in Big Littles Lies on HBO, so maybe she knows her from that and did her a huge favor.
Agree, way too wordy making it hard to keep reading but I did and was disappointed
I can’t believe this book is a NY Times Bestseller!
I think Miranda's ending was for a sequel no doubt.. but I won't be reading it. Beth your review is spot on
The #1 takeaway I had from this book was that there was SO MUCH superfluous description... I swear, I learned more about flowers and plants than anything else. I found the read to be laborious.
100% agree, Beth. I made myself finish it because I wanted to figure out what the hype was. I would give this a 2.5, but I gave it a 3. None of the characters were likable. Also, maybe I'm a prude, but I can't imagine people getting naked so often...it seemed weird to me.
