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kimaroundtown 's review for:
To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
Of course I wanted to love this. While I understand much of the criticism of A Little Life, it was for me an all consuming read.
This is not. While I quite enjoyed the first and final books, the middle section was so disengaging that I had to force myself to finish it.
Overall it was heavy handed (not just the physical weight of a 700 page book) and too obvious in many places. Yanagihara still has a lovely way with prose, for this reason book one was my favourite. But it needed an editor with more urgency.
This is not. While I quite enjoyed the first and final books, the middle section was so disengaging that I had to force myself to finish it.
Overall it was heavy handed (not just the physical weight of a 700 page book) and too obvious in many places. Yanagihara still has a lovely way with prose, for this reason book one was my favourite. But it needed an editor with more urgency.