Title: Sigh -- from a very disappointed Sarah Waters fan
Product review: Having devoured all three of SW's earlier works of brilliant, engrossing historical fiction, I splurged and got The Night Watch in hardcover. And horror of horrors, dear reader, I must confess that I haven't been able to bring myself to finish it! The characters are woefully unsympathetic; the reverse-chronology method of storytelling limps along and feels like a gimmick (and a hard to follow one at that); and SW's famed method of suspense-building is MIA. Perhaps one of you who made it through the entire thing can write and exhort me to finish it (hint: if you tell me you were bored through page 150, too, but it got better, I might believe you), but as of now I wanted to register my sad regrets on this one.
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