has failed utterly to live up to the basic premise promised: namely, the story of a marriage told first from the husband's POV and then, with startling discoveries, from the wife's POV nope, it is no such thing yes, there are two POVs, but there is hardly anything startling or eye-popping this is not the Gone Girl of relationship fiction Ģ. I am so angry that this book, so highly touted and so extravagantly praisedġ. It is dazzling only in its level of insipid ludicrousness. The only expectation it defies is that of one expecting to read good literature. To the contrary, Fates and Furies is the antithesis of a literary masterpiece. Reading the description that Goodreads has posted on its main page for Fates and Furies is making me physically ill: “ Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. I only finished reading (hate-reading, actually) so I could have an outlet for my anger and disappointment: namely, writing a review of this novel. Is Fates and Furies the worst novel I’ve read in 2015? We still have almost 3 full months remaining, but I have no doubt it will at least be in the top 3 worst reads of the year. My apologies to the author, Lauren Groff, for being so harsh, but this novel is terrible.
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