alexmykal 's review for:

Oleander: A Great Expectations Retelling by Scarlett Drake

3.0

slow-paced

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this took me way too long to get through. i usually dnf when i notice that a book is a slowburn, but i just needed to see how this played out. i loved jude throughout the entire story, and i’ll admit that caspien grew on me eventually. however, this was just entirely too long. so many people came and went and i get that we were supposed to follow jude as he grew into adulthood, but it got really boring as soon as it got to part two. yes, some events happened towards the end that i ate up, but we could’ve definitely gotten to those scenes quicker and wrapped this entire thing up. truthfully, i feel like half of the stuff in this book really wasn’t needed.