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I'm 60 pages into Fates and Furies and not sure if I want to continue. The voice is very unappealing. (I loved Arcadia.) Should I stick with it???
Scribbleheart My question to you is this: Do you find the voice unappealing because it belongs to a troubled (because unloved) boy who spends his wild youth making …moreMy question to you is this: Do you find the voice unappealing because it belongs to a troubled (because unloved) boy who spends his wild youth making love to any woman in whom he finds the tiniest spark of beauty? I, unlike you, was enchanted by the beginning (and the middle, and, I hope, the end) of this book, for the voice is that of a young man who is enamoured of beauty in its most infinitesimal details. The moment when he meets his future wife is cathartic. It is not an "easy" novel; it is a gloriously poetic (and omg I dislike poetry in general) novel, painted with music and collarbones and wine and lust. I adore it.(less)
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