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Title: I believed the hype
Review: Hearing the book of the year and Harry Potter for adults tags, I grabbed this book with a lot of expectations. I've seen other glowing reviews here so I assume this is a case of YMMV (your mileage may vary).The old style of writing didn't put me off. But I think this could have been a good (but not great) 200-300 page story. The book set up an interesting premise and contained some interesting sequence. But inbetween is a lot of rambling.The footnotes remind of of Book of Leaves where the first 50 pages or so they come off as an interesting unique devise but by the 400-700 pages I began to find them very tiresome. If you have a two page footnote, maybe that story should be part of the main storyline.As someone else said, don't expect Harry Potter for adults. It is definitely not that.
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