Title: Unremittingly depressing
Review: The writing style is annoying as all get out, but at least there were no typos or misspelled words, and the grammar was fine- that is honestly why it gets 2 stars instead of 1. The characters were very unsympathetic, and I didn't realize until 20 pages from the end that Gustine is supposed to be the protagonist. It's gruesome and ugly, and I felt like it really captured the feeling of working class 1831, but that's a horrible, horrible feeling. Everyone's a prisoner of ugly circumstances, and almost everyone is a deeply flawed person doing deeply wrong things for their own right reasons.
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