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In need of something fluffy... also, I still can´t let go Christmas or Paris...

Finished the title story, but nearly lost my patience during the last chapter... I will take a break before reading story 2.

Genau so wunderbar wie ihre "Gebrauchsanweisung für griechische Inseln".

So vividly described (including the doubting and insecure thoughts of the wife) that I had to put it down for the moment after the storm gave me a bad night´s sleep...

Just like in "Our Wives Under The Sea", Julia Armfield´s writing sucks me in and perfectly transports the feelings of the characters. The problem is that this means that after reading I am feeling as irritated and lost as the Carmichael sisters and I´m not sure that´s what I want to feel... Maybe her short stories will be a better fit for me, because then I can appreciate her ideas and her writing in smaller doses...

I wasn´t a fan of "An American Marriage" and am pleasantly surprised about how much I enjoy this story and feel drawn to it.

I still feel like I'm being introduced to everybody...

Some reviews talked about disliking the main character in this one; well, I just finished "Fates & Furies" and hope this will not be a problem in comparision :-) I hope for a less convoluted palate cleanser here, let´s see!

So many things on my TBR, but I couldn´t wait any longer to start the final part of this saga.

At 52% I have no idea what else could happen story-wise... apart from the fact that I don´t expect the main character to end up with the "man she wants to be with"... thinking about DNFing if it was not for bookclub...

The beginning of this reminds me of the beginning of any episode of "Inside the World´s Toughest Prisons" :-)
Really curious now as this is my first Sarah Waters.

I love how in this we get topics like being different, looking beneath the surface, what makes people tick etc. similar to "The Trouble with Goats and Sheep", but with less characters, so it is less confusing ;-)

I did not like part I at all :-(

I think I'll have to give up on this on, at least for now. I like Alex, but the (first?) big turn in the story feels too much like fantasy literature to me whereas I expected SciFi. I also feel a bit tired of the descriptions of the strange place where she landed now an wished for more story to happen...