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i really like the writing in this book i thought there were maybe one or two occasions where i got a little bit clunky but this book is this author's debut novel so i think that's to be expected in a first novel but other than that i thought everything flowed really well i'm invested in these characters already i love the bond that they share

it's all written in this very grocery list kind of way like you're reading someone's diary right you get really excited maybe i'll get some salacious details but no it's just a play-by-play of that person's everyday life snoozefest

it's not like it wasn't slow this time around it's just that i think i'm different coming into this book because it actually hooked me this time don't get me wrong it is very prim it is very studious in its presentation but i like that about it this time

we start to be introduced to this rather large cast of characters kind of rapid fire so you get a page to a page and a half with any one character they're introduced and then it's directly on to the next one and that's not enough time for me to feel invested in any one of these characters to even know anything about them

i liked this i liked it a lot i had to think when i was done with these pages because i am having to be kind of brutal in this process i only want to keep books around that i think are going to earn at least four stars and when i finished the second chapter i was starting to think this might lean more toward a three star book but then again i'm really interested in that first chapter and whether or not the countess's baby is actually this doctors and i do like the idea of a multi-generational tale and i know that's what this is so i think this one is leaning in the four star direction