Title: An unremarkable read not about Blake
Product review: I should probably preface this by saying I'm not a fan of Tracy Chevalier. She seems determined to follow a trend (over I dare to hope) of including historical figures in her narrative in order to classify it as true Historical Fiction. It's an unnecessary contrivance. I read this hoping to learn something about Blake. He's in it. It's not about him. In fact I'm not sure what it was about. There seemed to be no resolution to any of the conflicts set forth. Perhaps I'm just having trouble remembering, what was, for me, an unremarkable read. All the key figures walk onto the screen with hardly anything memorable about them, they have their say, engage in their respective struggles, then walk away again without seeming to have accomplished anything but to have gotten themselves into finer messes than they were to begin with. I'm a fairly astute reader. If there was a point, I didn't get it.
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