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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
4.0

Not quite as high on this as I expected. There’s a lot of hype around it so was expecting a bit more. I like the prose, the structure, and thought the plotting and pacing in particular were quite good. People found this a lot more enlightening and clever than me though, I think. It clipped along enough that I wasn’t boring and had more to say than revealing a plot, but it certainly didn’t blow me away. It is, however, quite unique, which is what bumped it up a star for me.