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The Furies
by Katie Lowe
The Furies by Katie Lowe is a book that has a tone similar to Mean Girls + The Craft + Heathers + Practical Magic...but despite those references and possible influences, it fell short with me.
I think it was WAY too long and full of (unnecessary) art and renaissance references but when you really boil down the story, you have a novel full of unlikeable and entitled characters, for whom you don't feel sympathy or really anything at all...and why is Robin so perfect? Why do the girls let her call all of the shots? From my vantage point she is a calculating and manipulative girl who is self destructive right down to the end.
And the girl whose parents are abusing her...that's not worth of more plot development?
And so many events go unchecked...drinking and drugs and staying out all night and no parents are to be found?
It's not a boarding school but it reads as if it were?
I did not love the book and yes, I realize I have an unpopular opinion!
I think it was WAY too long and full of (unnecessary) art and renaissance references but when you really boil down the story, you have a novel full of unlikeable and entitled characters, for whom you don't feel sympathy or really anything at all...and why is Robin so perfect? Why do the girls let her call all of the shots? From my vantage point she is a calculating and manipulative girl who is self destructive right down to the end.
And the girl whose parents are abusing her...that's not worth of more plot development?
And so many events go unchecked...drinking and drugs and staying out all night and no parents are to be found?
It's not a boarding school but it reads as if it were?
I did not love the book and yes, I realize I have an unpopular opinion!