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Vinegar Girl
by Anne Tyler
The final third of this book is fantastic. Unfortunately you have to read the first two-thirds to get to it. The plot chugs along at a nice pace, but this is fluffy in a way that's not satisfying fluff.
I was hoping for something in the vein of Curtis Sittenfield's [b:Eligible|25852870|Eligible (The Austen Project, #4)|Curtis Sittenfeld|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1460477855s/25852870.jpg|26428236] in terms of updating a romance for modern times, but so many of the supporting characters in this book (outside the Shrew and her Tamer) are sketched so thinly and broadly that it's hard to root for any of them. Stick with it and once they largely go away the book picks up, nails the tone it needs to hit all the Taming of the Shrew marks remaining and end in a completely charming way.
I was hoping for something in the vein of Curtis Sittenfield's [b:Eligible|25852870|Eligible (The Austen Project, #4)|Curtis Sittenfeld|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1460477855s/25852870.jpg|26428236] in terms of updating a romance for modern times, but so many of the supporting characters in this book (outside the Shrew and her Tamer) are sketched so thinly and broadly that it's hard to root for any of them. Stick with it and once they largely go away the book picks up, nails the tone it needs to hit all the Taming of the Shrew marks remaining and end in a completely charming way.