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esphixiet 's review for:
The Diviners
by Margaret Laurence
This was not my favourite book. In fact, about a quarter of the way in, I gave up on reading it, and went to read a synopsis instead (so I would have an idea of what people were talking about at book club). When I read the synopsis, I realized that I *really wanted* to get to the end organically. Even though I'd "spoiled" the ending, it seemed like a story worth living through.
Part of what I hated in the beginning was the disconnect between Morag and those around her. She seemed so awkward, and it felt like she was doing this intentionally. I couldn't understand why she was so internally awful to Christie and Prin. They seemed like good people, and she seemed ungrateful. Her relationship with Jules was stilted, which seemed a little more reasonable, being young love and all. I despised her relationship with her husband.
It wasn't until after she left Brooke and started preparing for Pique that I started to understand Morag. And it was around this time that I really started enjoying the book.
It was definitely a story worth living through.
Part of what I hated in the beginning was the disconnect between Morag and those around her. She seemed so awkward, and it felt like she was doing this intentionally. I couldn't understand why she was so internally awful to Christie and Prin. They seemed like good people, and she seemed ungrateful. Her relationship with Jules was stilted, which seemed a little more reasonable, being young love and all. I despised her relationship with her husband.
It wasn't until after she left Brooke and started preparing for Pique that I started to understand Morag. And it was around this time that I really started enjoying the book.
It was definitely a story worth living through.