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A review by alixx_thomas
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Did not finish book.
1.0
DNF’d it at 200 pages.
I think I might be in the minority here, but this book was just so boring. I couldn’t bring myself to care even a little bit about what was happening or who the characters were, and I was constantly trying to find ways to put the book down. In the first few pages, I loved how prettily written it is. Don’t get me wrong, I think the author does have skill. But as I continued on, I started to find it incredibly overwritten and this, along with the badly paced lack of a good plot, contributed towards my boredom. How many adjectives can you use to describe one thing? For some reason, everything needed to be done in threes. It became incredibly tedious, and I felt like the author was just trying to show off her writing skills rather than trying to create anything with actual substance. It’s a shame because I wanted to enjoy this book, but I just couldn’t get on with it.
I think I might be in the minority here, but this book was just so boring. I couldn’t bring myself to care even a little bit about what was happening or who the characters were, and I was constantly trying to find ways to put the book down. In the first few pages, I loved how prettily written it is. Don’t get me wrong, I think the author does have skill. But as I continued on, I started to find it incredibly overwritten and this, along with the badly paced lack of a good plot, contributed towards my boredom. How many adjectives can you use to describe one thing? For some reason, everything needed to be done in threes. It became incredibly tedious, and I felt like the author was just trying to show off her writing skills rather than trying to create anything with actual substance. It’s a shame because I wanted to enjoy this book, but I just couldn’t get on with it.