"In short - incoherent overpraised rubbish.

I have read my share of classics over the years. Some of them were boring, some outside the area of my interest, but never had I come across one that was so dreadfully bad and at the same time so critically acclaimed.

I simply can't comprehend how this jumble of disjointed sentences can be seriously called a "masterpiece." The story was almost impossible to follow. Had I not read "Jane Eyre," I'd be lost in this book completely. The characters' motivations and even actions were hard to understand, their personalities were non-existent. And apparently, Bertha went mad because Rochester didn't give her enough loving and cheated on her with a servant girl once.

Awful beyond belief.

Reading challenge: #27, 1 of 2. "

" If mansplaining was done by a woman it would be this book.

I don’t think I have ever found a book so infuriating, this book made me so angry.

The characters are dull but they are also so irritating, particularly Sara. Sara never thought to see anyone else’s point of view and just expected Miles to know how to act in a very new very difficult situation as if he should have just walked out of some psychologist’s textbook. Umm that isn’t how real life works. How would he know how to act, even when she would tell him she would just do it in such a passive aggressive way that isn’t helping anybody. I’m not saying miles was perfect because he wasn’t but Sara needed to realise she wasn’t perfect either.

I understand what the author was trying to do and 100% the complexities of PTSD and the affect they have on somebody’s body and relationships should be more widely talked about but this was just done so heavy handed and there was no subtlety to it.

I also think she mentioned she was vegan at least every other chapter. I don’t have short term memory loss but this book kind of made me wish I did.

Also the writing I have huge issues with. This was really just telling and no showing. The simple sentences and the lack of flow just added to my frustration.

The synopsis sounded great but the execution unfortunately was not for me."

"sometimes i feel like a cigarette in a barbie shoe "