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Sarah Waters

Start date: January 1, 2015

Finish date: February 28, 2015

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Oct 02, 2014 Amy rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, read-in-2014, _own-ebook

This book really surprised me ... I didn't read anything about it before picking it up except that I'd heard it was 'good.' I think this is one that is best read with little information going into it. Sarah Waters is such a brilliant writer - that is what made this book so special! The pacing of the novel was perfection! I literally felt like I was walking around the early 1920s as I read this novel. The characters were spot on, the story was wonderful and the novel slowly pulls you in and makes ...more

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Dec 28, 2014 Jen rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: former-bees

I finished this book, but I'm not actually sure why. I didn't love it. Some books evoke certain colors and visions for me, and this one was gray. Gray, black and white. There is no color in this book. No excitement and definitely no joy. Even in the sections where I assume Waters intended for there to be love and joy, I didn't find it.

The plot is plodding. It's just a slow, plodding march towards the end, which was completely anti-climactic. There is promise in each of the three sections of the ...more

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Jul 31, 2014 Loretta rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: bees, books-i-own, my-5-star-reads, 2016, diverse-reads-lgb

I found this nearly impossible to put down. Waters' books can be somewhat slow, but I read them for the incredible characterization--the fact that even the characters you are rooting for are a little bit twisted, or cruel, or self-serving or cowardly. And this particular novel was helped along by the incredibly tense, claustrophobic atmosphere that was created.

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Oct 18, 2014 Michelle rated it it was ok

Shelves: bee-shelf, read-in-2015

I really wanted to like this book. And I did kind of in the beginning though it seemed like it wasn't going anywhere. Then it just kept going and going and going. Then it ended. Not well. This chunkster probably should have been edited down to a not so chunkster in my humble opinion. ...more

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