cloppythemule 's review for:

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

3.0

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SUCH a mixed bag. Honestly I really wouldn’t bother with the first 364 pages becuase parts one and two are totally flat, pretty boring and have very little emotional hook. The last part is amazing though, set in a dystopian future riddled with totalitarianism and plague (sound familiar?) If I was Hanye’s editor I would have asked her to jettison the first two thirds of the book, but I think she’s a writer that’s too big and talented to be told what to do by an editor now, which is a shame becuase the flabbiness of the first two thirds is a real trial by boredom, not sure why I persevered other than stubbornness.