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Harry Shaw
is on page 270 of 320
Ironically, the structure of it being written in verse is what is pulling me through the book. When I heard it was in verse at book club I thought it would be a chore but without it's rhythm it would have been a brutal read. The content however is trite. I absolutely hate the main character, her self pitying and lashing out with her own misery and bitterness at others.
— Dec 20, 2025 10:11PM
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Harry Shaw
is on page 100 of 320
Yuck, the content of the Poet is everything I dreaded about women's romance fiction. Narcissistic, finger-pointing and unfocused. I hate it when a lead character is so infatuated with another character that it feels as if they are in their own story as an outsider. A third through, and I find the book is almost written in the second person by how captive she is to her "successful academic university professor lover".
— Dec 16, 2025 09:26AM
