Our October Book was "The Miniaturist" by Jessie Burton . A much hyped novel, which has uniformly received glowing reviews from leading critics and popular authors, we were all hoping for great things. The group met yesterday and were instantly in agreement that this novel did not deliver, and that it was a book that some felt obliged to finish and others just couldn't stand to continue it. Some great conversation followed, and what follows is a summary of what we covered. I've paraphrased as best as possible, just to give a flavor of this discussion, which got very lively and passionate in places. Here's why: Sijla : Silja summarized the issue very pithily with this comment - (slight spoiler alert!) " If I don’t care about a dead dog, something’s not right!" As an experienced writer, Silja felt that this book read like someone’s first novel produced for a creative writing exercise, or by a recent graduate, and felt very amateur and
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