The Marriage of Opposites
Apr. 27th, 2023 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI really tried with The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman, because it's exactly the kind of book I'm bingeing at the moment (female-focused historical drama) and I really didn't want to have a third DNF in a row - but I was less than 100 pages in after five days (and reading my old journals by preference) so I just gave up last night.
It started out very slow and very remote - the protagonist's name wasn't used until page 54 and there was almost no direct action, so it felt more like a biography than a novel. I was interested in the setting and the themes, but even after the story properly started, there just wasn't enough to engage me to want to carry on with it.
It started out very slow and very remote - the protagonist's name wasn't used until page 54 and there was almost no direct action, so it felt more like a biography than a novel. I was interested in the setting and the themes, but even after the story properly started, there just wasn't enough to engage me to want to carry on with it.
I'm a big fan of Alice Hoffman's
Date: 2023-04-27 08:35 pm (UTC)