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The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
4.0

Ok, my star rating for this book is based on how well I think Rowling wrote it, not how much I liked it. Ok.

Possible spoilers? Kinda but not really.

Ok, I was gonna make a vlog about this one but decided I just don't have the time. My initial reaction upon finishing the book was, what? Did I just read a soap opera? Even better, it felt like I was watching a terrible, depressing reality show that just ended when somebody died but not when any of the problems were solved. Seriously. It just ended.
What Rowling did FANTASTICALLY was glide so smoothly between characters and POVs throughout the novel. It was seamless and interesting and she wrote each character perfectly to fit all of their strange personalities.
I think I would have liked the story better if there was a single character I liked (there wasn't) or one family who seemed happy in the slightest.

It was a tough read but I'm glad I did. I guess. I still just don't know how I feel about it! What was the point of that book?????