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I want to drop this, but I also want to rant about it and I refuse to rate books I haven't finished.

Goat eyes are slit across the middle, not down the middle.

I'm confused... is the reader supposed to be against Sarafina?

"I suppose this is what you would call unwomanly; but I have got into a habit of expressing myself."

"She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth. Nice thing for a woman to say to her husband."

Halfway in and I'm still not getting the hype behind this book.

DNFing at 46%- I've really enjoyed PRK's Say Nothing and Empire of Pain but this feels like too small of a story to be worthy of a whole book. A bunch of shady people met each other and some bad things happened, but unlike the two previously named titles in which bad people do bad things, this lacks a greater societal impact. This should have been an essay.

DNF @ 40% I like the concept and world here, but almost every time I listen to the audio I turn it off annoyed.

Starting this knowing that it may add fuel to an ongoing existential crisis...

Still in the mentality of "what the fuck".

I want to love this so badly. There are so many phenomenal elements but I'm also getting really annoyed often.

I barely know what's going on.

Wtf is this book?

She was fond of her children in an uneven, impulsive way. She would sometimes gather them passionately to her heart; she would sometime forget them... Their absence was a sort of relief, though she did not admit this, even to herself. It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her.

I'm not sure if I've ever encountered a character in fantasy that has as good of an arc as Malta.

nothing wrong with this only my library loan is ending and this isn't compelling enough to make me binge listen nothing but this for my 2 days left.

If it had been two days earlier, her argument would have sounded to my ears like some heathen talk. But compared to atheism and homosexuality, women's rights didn't seem wuite so outrageous.

1) this book is great 2) audio is especially so as it is a woman telling her story.

Ever have a book that you love immediately? This one feels like that.

DNF@ 25% This is oddly compelling in an awful sort of way but I'm finding it tiring. I don't care.

That section was even worse than I expected it to be but also better in an entirely unexpected way.

I'm almost scared to go into Tina's section.

This boy's insecurity is exhausting.

Considering how often I forget I'm reading this, it's clear I'm not enjoying myself and don't care to continue. Nothing necessarily wrong with it and I generally like 'weird' books but I'm not finding this compelling. DNF at 33%

The amount of times I almost yell "fuck your church", while listening to this book.

Not vibing with the audio narrator for Pierre. And the content is odious, I don't want to be in his head.