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[quote=Anonymous]Recently started the Once and Future Witches; I’m 70 pp in, it’s an easy read with some pretty prose yet also very tropey and trauma-laden; it might be a DNF (which is rare for me), but it is the bookclub select and I’m guessing everyone else will have loved it—so may see it through so I can have full perspective for the discussion. I get that the tropes are partly related to fairy tale archetypal journeys, but some used here are just heavy-handed. And the book also has a pet peeve of mine: when authors go through the trouble of embedding a metaphor or allusion, but then they (or their editor) don’t trust you to connect the dots, so they go ahead and tell you what they meant just to be sure. I am curious about some of the new characters, though, and also don’t want to be cranky about the book so may try to get to part 2 (~20% in).[/quote]
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