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Title: Unsatisfying, overall
Review: I bought this book with great hopes--it had been reviewed well here and elsewhere, and the Victorian pastiche is a favorite form of mine.I found, however, that this book was almost completely unreadable. The main character was tiresome at best, an utter blank at worst. Too much energy was expended in forcing rather outdated Freudian notions of gender and sex, and one got the sense, correct or no, that the author was a good sixty years behind on current debates on the subject.Ultimately, I lost so much interest that I was unable to finish the book. It does, however, make a handy hammer for those times when my bed frame begins coming loose.
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