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Title: A labor... not necessarily of love
Review: If it hadn't been for my strong determination to finish everything I start, I would have put this book down weeks ago. The first four hundred pages were soooooooo slow. I used to avoid the book, try to hide it somewhere and forget it, but this determination told me that I had to finish and know if it was worth the time. Having finished it last night I can say that it's a "good book". That's all I'd give it. Ask me in a month and I won't remember the plot nevermind the intricacies-- not exactly the stamp of a great novel. The last two hundred pages gripped me, I couldn't wait to turn the page, but did I really have to wade through 600 pages to get there? This book should have been edited to half its size... less is sometimes more. I wish someone had told Susanna Clarke that.
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