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Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

3.0

working through the groff oeuvre and realizing that i don’t think anything will live up to Matrix. this one felt gray and cynical and oprah book club. the way she wrote about bodies and thinness did not feel like craft, or like it was there for a reason, as much as it felt like an unexamined adherence to a boring acceptance of norms. yawn. some of the plot twists felt too gimmicky and contrived, which isn’t always a problem, but for a book that feels so mired in Gritty Realism, it just seemed off. it was a page-turner, though, i’ll give it that.