My first disappointment of 2021. The concept was fine - magical realism/historical fiction, supernatural love story - but this was boring. I was on the verge of DNFing more than once, but put this in the “sunk cost fallacy” column. My main issue with this was the current day story - it was unnecessary. This would have worked much better, and been a leaner story, if it had just told Lanore’s story without the modern day framing.