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Fates and Furies

Lauren Groff

Start date: January 1, 2016

Finish date: January 2, 2016

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Oct 30, 2015 Melissa rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2015

I finished this last night and I still haven't figured out what I think of it. I kind of loved it, but it's hard to REALLY love a book when there isn't a single character to like. But I found them fascinating, particularly in the second half (for anyone who is struggling to get through it, I promise, once you get to the second half it picks up!) which shocked me over and over again. I also hated the writing style at first, but eventually I got used to it. So a lot of mixed feelings about this on ...more

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Jan 03, 2016 Patty rated it it was amazing

Shelves: literary-fiction

I just had to sit with it for a while after I finished it. Complicated and beautiful.

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Aug 06, 2015 Kate rated it it was ok

GOD this book was such a slog. Lotto is a royal dick. Matilde is a real buzzkill. Everyone has obscene amounts of baggage. THE WOOOOOORST.

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May 05, 2025 Karlita rated it it was ok

This was actually a quick read but it felt like the longest read ever. The story just drags on about nothing, really. There is no action, no story. It's about a marriage, told from both sides. But my goodness are these two characters boring and have nothing interesting about them. Lotto is a terrible, snobby ego maniac. Mathilde is flat, depressive and pretty awful. Both characters are just endlessly horny teenagers, who claim they're soulmates but really their relationship is just sexually depe ...more

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