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The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams
3.0
This was heavy but kind of in all the wrong ways. There was this air of drudgery in the entire novel which really felt like suffocating which I guess goes along with the plot of the book, but really I felt less like it was about the plot and more about the prose which seemed really overworked to me.
[a:Sarah Waters|25334|Sarah Waters|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1208970232p2/25334.jpg] gets mentioned a lot when trying to pigeonhole this book and I do see where that comparison is coming from but I feel like Williams is a lot less successful in writing about the same sorts of things as Ms. Waters. If anything, I would say this book reminded me more of a highbrow attempt at [b:My Sweet Audrina|805023|My Sweet Audrina|V.C. Andrews|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1178550284s/805023.jpg|2702382], with all the gaslighting and the 'what happened to my family' drama. I found the first 50 pages to be very dull, with a pick up in the middle where things got quite exciting for a while, and then ultimately it just fizzled out again at the end which I found to be pretty lackluster.
I do, however, love that cover.
[a:Sarah Waters|25334|Sarah Waters|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1208970232p2/25334.jpg] gets mentioned a lot when trying to pigeonhole this book and I do see where that comparison is coming from but I feel like Williams is a lot less successful in writing about the same sorts of things as Ms. Waters. If anything, I would say this book reminded me more of a highbrow attempt at [b:My Sweet Audrina|805023|My Sweet Audrina|V.C. Andrews|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1178550284s/805023.jpg|2702382], with all the gaslighting and the 'what happened to my family' drama. I found the first 50 pages to be very dull, with a pick up in the middle where things got quite exciting for a while, and then ultimately it just fizzled out again at the end which I found to be pretty lackluster.
I do, however, love that cover.