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I 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.

I'm a big fan of Alice Hoffman's

Date: 2023-04-27 08:35 pm (UTC)
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but can't really remember if I read that one or not. Which might prove your point, I guess.

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