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★★★☆ 3.5 Stars, rounded down — I don't think I will remember much about this book, months from now...
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All male characters had a "small dick energy" with extremely fragile masculinity, possessiveness, and high-level toxicity in their nature.
Ew.
Anyway, I also understand that it's set in the 1950s so everyone projected their insecurities a lot without actually acknowledging how they were actually part of the problem. Looking at the main protagonists, for example, Lenu was a "pick-m ...more
What I learned:
All male characters had a "small dick energy" with extremely fragile masculinity, possessiveness, and high-level toxicity in their nature.
Ew.
Anyway, I also understand that it's set in the 1950s so everyone projected their insecurities a lot without actually acknowledging how they were actually part of the problem. Looking at the main protagonists, for example, Lenu was a "pick-m ...more
After reading all the reviews, I expected to really love this book. I just didn't. It felt like a soap opera and was too slow and domestic for my taste. I think there are more important books to be reading now. You get to the end and are left hanging. I definitely will not be reading the other two books.
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Enjoyable, but not the ground-breaking work I had been expecting based on other reviews.
Apr 02, 2015
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