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Natchez Burning by Greg Iles
2.0

DNF. I tried. I tried really hard. If this book was only 500 pages long, I might have been able to push myself just a little bit further to finish it. But 800 pages of important info being presented through extensive dialogue, every new character receiving pages of backstory, and the same events being rehashed in every single conversation was exhausting. I couldn't have cared less for Penn Cage, who - despite being the narrator for many chapters - never really showed who he was. And I grew to hate his father simply because everyone in town worshipped him and refused to believe he was anything less than perfect. What makes my failure to finish this book even worse is that I already bought the next one in the series.