Helpful Score: 13
Another book I chose to not finish. (Can count on one hand how many times that has happened to me in my lifetime.) I thought this was going to be right up my alley, and dove into it with gusto. It started off well enough, though by the time I got about mid-way through I started to find it dragging. I put it down and then just never picked it back up again. Every time I looked at it on my nightstand I decided to go and look at my bookshelf to find something else.
I just posted this book on my account and it was picked up almost immediately. When I saw that, I thought, "I should try to finish this book" so I pulled the bookmark out and started in. Didn't make it a page and found myself flipping forward to the last couple pages to just read the end. Didn't even do that as from what I can tell it "ended" over the last several chapters. In the end (for me) I just decided to give up and send it along to someone who hopefully will enjoy it a whole lot more than I did.
This should have been a book for me - period piece, hints of time travel or time warping, smart female at the center of the book along with a well-known figure from history...but just couldn't hang with it through the middle when I found it getting repetitive and circular and when I felt almost as hallucinogenic reading it as the main character seemed to be "living" it.
Hope you enjoy it, though! Everyone has different tastes, and it's always worth a try to dig into any book!
I just posted this book on my account and it was picked up almost immediately. When I saw that, I thought, "I should try to finish this book" so I pulled the bookmark out and started in. Didn't make it a page and found myself flipping forward to the last couple pages to just read the end. Didn't even do that as from what I can tell it "ended" over the last several chapters. In the end (for me) I just decided to give up and send it along to someone who hopefully will enjoy it a whole lot more than I did.
This should have been a book for me - period piece, hints of time travel or time warping, smart female at the center of the book along with a well-known figure from history...but just couldn't hang with it through the middle when I found it getting repetitive and circular and when I felt almost as hallucinogenic reading it as the main character seemed to be "living" it.
Hope you enjoy it, though! Everyone has different tastes, and it's always worth a try to dig into any book!
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