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Fates and furies goodreads

See Featured Authors Answering Questions. Denise Bogard asked:. To answer questions about Fates and Furies , please sign up. Guineveruca I am relieved to see this question. I'm 2 chapters in and, while it's an easy enough read, there is nothing enjoyable about the book. The writing is highly contrived and does nothing to make the main character sympathetic or even interesting. Life just sort of happens to this charmed-yet-cursed make up your mind already boy. The set up for the marriage that is supposed to be this amazing relationship between these amazing people? Don't care. I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to plow through, or if this will be another Lovely Bones, where a really terrible book gets inexplicable accolades from all corners.

The magic system is simple and integrated into the world in a way where paragraphs of lore-dumping are not necessary. What hooked me was the anticipation regarding Mathilde.

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January 04, From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia , an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives.

Fates and furies goodreads

Account Options Ieiet. Fates and Furies : A Novel. Lauren Groff. Penguin , Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation.

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There was absolutely no substance a reader could sink their teeth into - just pretentious fluffiness that aspired to be bold, but fell far short of the goal. Stacey Angelides I've persevered and I'm nearly at the end and wished I'd chosen something else for my summer reading I want a whole novel on his escapades. Two word review: pretentious garbage. And that huge "shocking" twist at the end of the book? This is about a marriage, told from the two different sides and, clearly, we are going to get a very different view from each side. Visceral and poetic and visually evocative. What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did. Fates recounts their storybook passion, his fidelity, and quite boringly, the content of his many successful stage plays. THE call. And so it goes. It contains spoilers so anything after this will be hidden unless you'd like to click on it : Ok first, the opening line, are you kidding me? He makes two life-changing transformations - firstly, he changes from a womaniser into a model husband overnight; then he changes from a third rate actor into a first rate playwright literally overnight.

Like Gone Girl, this tightly controlled portrait of a cruel and impossible relationship pivots on a shift in perspective.

If I have to wait until the 2nd half of the book before things improve, no thanks. I did plow through it after reading a NYT essay on the value of "hate reads. Give me a dictionary! I enjoyed it reading this novel - but enjoyed my breaks away from it equally as much. Let me be that terrible first rift in the dark. This, this was what she lived for now: the song of steel, the splatter of blood, the final breath a host of darkness stole before she took its life. If your looking for a series that gives you epic fantasy, crying tears either with happiness or sadness while reading, emotional trauma, the most beautiful love story ever, twists and turns that have you taking a moment to stop and just process what you have read, found family with the best banter, beautiful writing that draws you in from start to finish and just gives you all the feelings possible then please read this series. Jeanne Put it down and run away! Things are really starting to fall into place and I cannot wait to see where book 4 takes Thea and Wilder. But the truth is, Thea