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After Mrs Hamilton

Clare Ashton

Start date: February 4, 2013

Finish date: March 3, 2013

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Dec 01, 2021 Elena Graf rated it it was amazing

I tried four times to read this book. Each time I got lost in the exquisitely rendered physical and emotional details and the large cast of characters. I found myself distracted by the language, sometimes so perfect it could be poetry. Tig Ashton can turn a phrase! But the details also clogged the story line at points. This was an early book for this author. We all tend to overwrite in the beginning.

Today, I finally finished, staying up till the wee hours to get to the end. Once I got into the s ...more

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Dec 17, 2020 Professor Ratigon rated it did not like it

*roll my eyes*

Every time I want to torture my mind, crush my soul with desperstion, like a never-ending loop, all roads lead me back to this book. (instead of finding myself in the closest, I wonder if Clare Ashton had made me a masochist with her extreme imagination in writing?!)

Sounds about damn right.

However, I'm still soured over Laura & Susan. I will pretend they are happily living somewhere else without the revealed ugly truth. Like the old wisdom, if you don't think about it, it doesn't e ...more

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Mar 30, 2018 Geo (rain) rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-english, lgbt, fa, bought-2018

It was pretty good. I went into this expecting a predictable love story of an escort and her client, but it was so much more than that. For instance, the book it's not just about these two characters, but a few more, two of them having a significant part in the story and with some chapters written from their perspective. And the main story is not as straightforward either.

It was really entertaining and well written overall. I really enjoyed it. ...more

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