Too slow paced for me :(

The writing was incredibly hard to follow and connect with. Like Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector, but even more difficult to follow. 😅

Not for me :(

I think I’ve gotten all I need to out of this book, and it’s a bit more academic than what I’m looking for right now.

This should have worked for me, but unfortunately I didn't click with the story. I had similar issues to The Rabbit Hutch as I had to Martyr!: debut novels published by Knopf that were dense, had multiple POVs, and tried to tackle way too much. I think The Rabbit Hutch would have worked better if it focused more on Blandine and her POV. 
Bummed because I was looking forward to this! :(

I was absolutely slogging through this book so I decided to read the end and what the heck?!

You mean to tell me she was HIDING IN THE WOODS THIS WHOLE TIME?!

Anyways, glad to put this down and move onto other books.

If I kept going with this it was gonna put me in a reading slump in the worst way. Incredibly slow and overly descriptive.

I feel bamboozled. I was expecting to love this and it was so boring! I read many books where not much happens but at least in those there is some element I enjoy about it. In this, I found nothing that compelled me to keep going.

This might be a controversial opinion but this just did not work for me. I was very disconnected from the text and found the story lacked the emotional grounding, heart, and sensitivity of other stories dealing with similar themes that I have read this year. 

This is fine but I’m not eager to return to it anytime soon. Maybe I’ll pick it up again at some point.