so-soThis is a deeply weird book. The main storyline is riveting in places, but will then spin off somewhere else and never quite pick up the thread again. Some of the side characters are just awesome, but you kinda wonder what they‘re doing there at all. By the end, it was a serious slog and I just wanted it to be over. #toblonglist #whatweretheythinking
Megabooks, Cinfhen, MicheleinPhilly, Suet624, Chelsea.Poole, squirrelbrain, BarbaraBB, RebelReader, Addison_Reads, Ruthiella, sarahbarnesRebelReader He‘s not my favorite author anyway so I‘m not surprised by your review. 😜 1y
Suet624 Yeah, I was probably going to pass on this one and now you‘ve justified my instinct. 1y
MicheleinPhilly Yeah, I think I‘m skipping this one and its companion. 1y
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Cinfhen Same!! #HardPass 1y
sarahbarnes 😂 Love this review. I will now feel okay about skipping this one. 1y
squirrelbrain Me too @Suet624 @MicheleinPhilly @Cinfhen - I‘d already decided to skip these two. Thanks for taking one for the team though Holly! 🤣 1y
Ruthiella I don‘t think this will make the shortlist - at the most maybe a play-in round. I‘ve never read any McCarthy before and this doesn‘t seem like a good place to start! 1y
Megabooks The more reviews I see the happier I am that I bailed! 1y
Librariana Will you be reading all the titles on the ToB longlist? Knowing what an excellent reader you are, I imagine you might have already read a good number of them ☺️ 1y
Hooked_on_books @Librariana I think I‘ve read 23 of the 68. I‘ll probably read a fair number of them, but there are a few I definitely won‘t read because of disliking those authors in the past (Moshfegh and Bulawayo) and I don‘t care to read the long, rambling Irving book. But often there are major gems on their list that I haven‘t heard of before and I love that! 1y
BkClubCare Oh. Julia Whelan is narrator? 1y
Hooked_on_books @BkClubCare She‘s one of them. She has the smaller part. The audiobook is done well. 1y
BkClubCare I thought it would be a few weeks before the Libby hold would arrive but I was notified “ready to borrow“ yesterday 🙄 so I will suck it up and ebook it now, I guess. 1y
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