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The book is nicely paced and yet not verify enjoyable. I can't wait for it to end. It feels like a waste of time.

Feels like the book sort of wants to be feminist but instead fails and reproduces a bunch of internalized misogyny instead.

I think it's hard to do Handmaid's Tale genre well. But I like this so far because the women are educated and saucy.

Existentialism goes on the silly train.

I can't decide if I want to keep reading this. It gets depressing and skeezy, but then it perks up and gets interesting... then drops off again, and I just don't know if I care enough to proceed.

So incredibly philosophically vapid. And soooooooo long. I assume it's setting up for an interesting unpacking. But will it be worth it? Right now it's very annoying.

I usually avoid WWII fiction like the plague, but this is 🔥.

Not loving this. It feels like the most banal of modern fiction. I want it to be weirder. It's also very long, so will it be worth it? It has a Blake Crouch vibe. But if it doesn't get more interesting, I might not spend the time on it.

Putting this aside for now because my loan is due. It's ok. Maybe will try again if I decide to push forward with the series.

It's so bad! 😭

Reading this for book club and not liking it. If it weren't a group project, I'd quit immediately in no small part because the narrator is absolutely awful.

Reading only the stories authored by women. So far, the best is by Naomi Alderman, which is a tower of Babel story in the time of AI. 🤯

Sloooooow start...

Still not loving it

Reading this for book club and not loving it. I tried it once before, made it about 20% through and set it aside. Not much better this time. Would love to not finish, but will push through for the sake of a communal experience.

Loving this. It's everything the Secret History failed to be.