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jvan 's review for:
An Instance of the Fingerpost
by Iain Pears
informative
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Four conflicting narratives that build to one still slightly unclear narrative, and it's not exactly satisfying to read. Most everyone in the book is horrible in a number of ways. There's too many details. There's an entire segment narrated by a completely unreliable narrator (and that's fine and intentional but also by the end left me wondering why bother including his segment.) There's a couple minor female characters (a whore, a witch) and one major one but there's no POV woman and the women in the narrative more or less exist to be abused and belittled. Historically that's maybe kinda accurate but it's not very nice to read.
A lot of the writing is good, and the 4 narrative characters actually manage to sound a bit different, so that was good too.
A lot of the writing is good, and the 4 narrative characters actually manage to sound a bit different, so that was good too.