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Title: This book is exhausting
Review: The only reason that I forced myself through to the end of this book is because it was a gift from someone. (I'm guessing they tried to read it first and decided to re-gift because it was dreadful.) The author has some perverse fascination with describing every tiny detail of every scene, no matter how irrelevant those details are to the story. Three pages for a woman to decide which dress to wear. Not kidding. That's all that happened, for three pages. I got through the second part by reading 2-3 sentences off of each page. The majority of it is entirely useless. It is impossible to like any of the characters, in part because the author did not make me like them, but mostly because I was so angry with this book I didn't care what happened to any of them. Any sympathy you might have felt for Briony vanishes with the self-aggrandizing ending. I am just so glad to be done with this book. I think I deserve some sort of literary prize just for reading it.
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