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@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I think epistolary/journalistic writings heighten the realism, they do for me anyway.
The characters are very realistic and flawed individuals, there are few likeable characters.
The story is told through the eyes of a young man returned shamefully from Cambridge under a cloud of his own scandals to find his mother and Sister are struggling with their own.
so-soI found the narrator to be a very unsympathetic character and it was quite clear by the end that he was delusional, which makes the conclusion/afterword rather disappointing and unsatisfying. The book was interesting enough to keep reading, but I wouldn‘t read it again.
4.5/10
This one has been in my TBR pile ever since I bought it for $1.99 as an ebook deal. The narrator? An unreliable, horny, opium-addicted teenager in the 1860s. Should be interesting! #anditsaugust #unusualnarrators
Rustication | 
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