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This book is woefully bad

This book is anxiously fantastic. I don’t want to finish it but also I’m delighted to be reading it in the Christmas holidays as I know I can stay in bed reading till the end.
Wonderful.

This book is an absolute joy to read, so beautifully written.

Somewhat annoyingly, my e-reader has decided to change the language of this book to French and I can’t revert to English. I can stumble trough the book but it’s not fun and I’ve forgotten a fair bit of French so I’m missing swathes and chunks. I give up for now

Yawn.
There’s probably some deep and meaningful philosophy going on here but whoosh. If it wasn’t such a short book I’d give up on it.

Dearie me. It’s every bit as bad as I’d expected. The characters have no depth. It’s like Enid Blyton with the casual racism replaced by references to sex. Not sure I can finish this.

I have tried to read this book on 4 separate occasions, and every time I’ve hated it. So I’ve started the audiobook, and I’m really enjoying it!

I’m glad I stuck with it. It’s all gone a bit Harold Fry. Overly sentimental, easy to read and probably a bit twee but it’s enjoyable.

I hate funny books. This one is trying to be funny.

Ok, giving this one another go. I’m going to give all my unfinished reads a second chance this year.

Why are the Greek gods all such nasty fuckers? I hate Zeus.

Soooo many n bombs. I know it’s meant to convey the racism without the author specifically saying these people are racist af, but I’m finding it makes me very uncomfortable.

What can I say? The book was going ok, I was loving the Queer representation until it turned out that the reason this one retreat spot was so popular with lesbians was because the young men (some of whom were underage) who worked as bar staff were also male prostitutes.
Bloody hell.

A lot of talk about penises and balls and men having sex 🤢🤮 and I don’t know if I’ll carry on with it. I do like the writing but I don’t know how much more sex I can endure.

Oh. I mean I knew this was what the book was about but still, oh no :(
Beautifully written so far but oh :(

Oh dear god I've heard so many good things about this book and it's pure drivel 😂😂😂 I hope it gets better. At least it's short.

I love Woody Allen's work, I believe Dylan Farrow.
This book is surprising in that WA doesn't even try to make himself likeable. It's funny, but it's also disjointed and rambling. He doesn't portray anyone in a good light, least of all himself.

This book has captivated me!! I'm going to see if I can finish it this evening, I need to know what happens.

Yawn.
It's for book club so I will carry on, but I thought it would be tedious and I was right.

This is the first time in a long time that a book has had me terrified! I think this is the first Mo Hayder book I've read, and I'm enjoying their writing.

It's disgraceful and so upsetting that we allow our children to be damaged in this way, and all by those paid to protect them.

Only 2% finished since last time? 😭😭😭😭

Boting, boring boring. BOOM! slightly less boring, slightly boring, boring...

I've not read this author before. So far, so good!

Everything I've read recently has been so incredibly poor that I'm reading this book about absolutely nothing, thinking it's ok purely because I don't hate it.
I need a good book.

Yawn.

This book is beautiful but oh my goodness its slaying me. I can't face any more but I know I will, but for now my heart needs to recover. Such an amazingly beautifully written book.
My heart aches.

Beautifully written but oh so sad. I want to keep.going but cant handle the emotions.

Oh no, I've just had a sinking realisation of what might lie ahead. I hope I'm wrong.
Still beautifully written, but oh so sad.

Whaaaaaat? Eep!!