Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Here in Avalon by Tara Isabella Burton
This is a three hundred page novel with approximately zero likeable (or really even engaging) characters in it--some of them are too damaged to be pleasant, even in fiction, but most of them are just bland dreck and the more insight they pretend to have the less it's obvious they have. It also has like zero surprises in it, and one very obvious metaphor.
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