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People that hated this book usually complain about the prose being too flowery. I happen to love flowery prose so I was keen to see what the fuss was about. Unfortunately, I’m slowly swinging over to the this-book-is-unreadable camp.
Chapter 1 was trial by fire. s2g every second sentence contained a metaphor or simile, but then chapter 2 was a normal amount of literary-ish prose for a book described as ‘flowery’. I hoped that most haters just didn’t read past chapter 1 and I was in for a great time.
I’ve almost finished chapter 29 and I don’t know if I have the strength to read through. The reliance on similes and metaphors is making the book feel so repetitive and vague that I’m actually having trouble figuring out what’s happening to the characters.
Alternatively, I’m seriously considering skipping all Corin chapters and finishing Amelia’s POV. I think Corin is supposed to make the reader want to throw the book across the room, but why would I do that when Amelia’s whimsy is just a few pages away? This would give me a different, perhaps even more interesting, perspective on Corin’s chapters. That is of course assuming I ever attempted to drag myself through her angsty internal sludge again.
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