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Sarah Waters,

Helene Bützow (Translator)

Start date: August 13, 2018

Finish date: September 9, 2018

Discussion: Genrehaaste 2018

Why we're reading this: Genrehaaste: historialliset romaanit
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Genrehaaste 2018

* Genrehaasteen ohjeet ja aikataulu
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Jun 18, 2014 amaldae marked it as partially-read · review of another edition

Shelves: sapphic, queer-umbrella

DNF at around 30%.

Fear not, this is a decent book, a good book. Waters is an excellent writer and an excellent crafter of characters - the girls here both have their own voices, interests, insecurities - and for once it can actually be said that the setting comes alive as well. Beautifully done, effortlessly convincing, and yet not a fully satisfactory experience for me.

A major reason for this is that I have seen the BBC adaptation some years back, and (as of yet) my memory of the specifics isn' ...more

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Aug 08, 2018 Desertorum rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I loved the idea of this. I kind of like my main characters to be this goody goody guys, who have respect for things to be done "right". In this one I kind of had to challenge that. There were not that clearly good and bad guys, they were more in the grey area. Still the story made me feel for them.
This also portrait my weird fear of being put to mental institutions without a reason. Just so damn scary. ...more

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