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The great karen wrote that this was Gone Girl with slightly nicer people. I didn't find that to be entirely the case, but there's also a bit of truth there. It's also a complicated, sometimes difficult, messy, pleasure of a book.
Lotto and Mathilde have a long, successful marriage.
Or do they?
That really is the premise of this book and it takes hundred of pages to get to the answers. As I've written before, some books are easier to admire than to truly love, and this may be one of those, but I ...more
Lotto and Mathilde have a long, successful marriage.
Or do they?
That really is the premise of this book and it takes hundred of pages to get to the answers. As I've written before, some books are easier to admire than to truly love, and this may be one of those, but I ...more
Confession: I never finished The Monsters of Templeton. I bailed on it after about 20 pages - I had an ARC as part of an early reader group and I just couldn't. I still have the ARC in hopes that I'll hit a life-stage where the main character doesn't annoy me.
But, on to Fates and Furies. I didn't read the blurb before I started, just downloaded the DRC and dived right in because lots of people whose taste I respect said I should. They weren't wrong. This is a really good book. Not quite blow-my- ...more
But, on to Fates and Furies. I didn't read the blurb before I started, just downloaded the DRC and dived right in because lots of people whose taste I respect said I should. They weren't wrong. This is a really good book. Not quite blow-my- ...more
I enjoyed the well-drawn, unusual characters. Dark without being depressing. 4.5 stars.
seems like this was on every book list, I found it pretty meh.
This is the story of a marriage told in two parts.
The first is a Dickensian Bildungsroman. The young man born to wealth has it all taken away by the death of his father. He must struggle and overcome. The David Copperfield question must arise. Will he be the hero of his own life, or will that role be played by another? What will be his fate?
The other part is of incomprehensible hardship. While others are rescued and supported, every pain and every mistake keenly felt by the other. There is no r ...more
The first is a Dickensian Bildungsroman. The young man born to wealth has it all taken away by the death of his father. He must struggle and overcome. The David Copperfield question must arise. Will he be the hero of his own life, or will that role be played by another? What will be his fate?
The other part is of incomprehensible hardship. While others are rescued and supported, every pain and every mistake keenly felt by the other. There is no r ...more
Interesting way to approach the portrayal of a marriage - painting a picture primarily from one character's point of view and then switching to the other's, filling the gaps and rewriting the narrative with a different set of information. That said, from the point of the switch, it got somewhat melodramatic and pretentious for me. The first character is supposed to be more likeable, which he is, but in painting the seamy underbelly of the lies told in marriage... it just got a little overwrought
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SO good.
I found the story compelling but I wouldn't say that I enjoyed reading this book...I found it difficult to really like the characters. It does present an interesting view on marriage however.
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Sep 15, 2015
Shrop
marked it as to-read
Oct 16, 2015
Carmen
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Nov 05, 2015
Grace
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Dec 19, 2015
Heather
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Dec 21, 2015
Ana
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Jan 17, 2016
Rosemary
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Jun 30, 2016
Crowinator
marked it as ra-adults
