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I like that this takes place in SF, in a neighborhood where I spent a lot of time, even. It's an interesting idea for a book, too. But OMG, the writing is not great, and most jarring of all is the "dialogue" -- people do not speak this way! The spoken conversations read like email written by AI, full of clumsy exposition and overwritten sentences that no human would say out loud in a natural exchange.

Scandalous!

So far: a book about a rich privileged British man staying in a quaint cottage in Provence, enjoying all the charming peculiarities therein, writing "clever" "witty" anecdotes about French people, and complaining about "tourists". Incredibly dull and unrelatable, I'm thisclose to DNFing.