A Dual Inheritance: A Novel (Audio)
ISBN:
9780385360562 (0385360568)
Publish date: May 7th 2013
Publisher: Random House Audio
Edition language: English
I was not a huge fan of A Dual Inheritance, though, I’m sure it actually had nothing to do with the book or with Joanna Hershon. In reality, it was actually a very well written book and I’m sure under different circumstances I’d have appreciated it a lot more. The problem was, was that I attempted (...
This is incredibly bland and reads like Jeffrey Archer but just intellectualised and certainly nothing remotely close to Freedom at all. Plodding prose and chronological chapters just makes the structure dull as the writers fills in the events as they unfold.
[The three stars aren't a knock; I really did like this book. I just didn't 'really like it' (GoodReads definition of four stars). But it was good!]I'm shocked I haven't heard more about this book already -- it has a kind of gossip-y, tawdry soap opera-y feel (marriage, divorce, adultery, social ju...
I made it almost to the halfway point, and then Hershon completely lost me. The first few chapters were promising. It seemed like it was going to be a sort of anthropological study using class-conscious characters. The more I read, the more it felt like the author had no idea what her purpose was in...
I just can't with this book. The characters aren't interesting, the plot isn't interesting, the writing itself isn't interesting. Reading the first half has turned out to be kind of a chore and I think I'm throwing in the towel.
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