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I'm so disappointed, "It wasn't Laurent's fault that all he could feel was fondness for a woman" wasn't code for he was gay and had married and had a child out of a sense of duty...nope he's actually just a misogynist and apparently a known "rake" this whole time...
The author really had a chance to tell a queer found family story but CompHet wins again. I would DNF but want to know if the carousel is haunted or not.

Not even halfway and now we've skipped ahead in time twice!

A sad event will happen then you turn a page and it's a hard cut to four years later...

It's giving the life of a Dickens character, but the mc is a not white, girl, orphan

So it's more sad than I expected but still spooky and I can't put it down