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A review by bookish_things_london
The Garden of Lost and Found by Harriet Evans
Did not finish book. Stopped at 84%.
It started off well, a mystery about an old family heirloom - a famous Victorian painting, and the old family home, but the main character in the modern day chapters is hard to sympathise with and makes really unrealistic and irresponsible decisions that wouldn’t likely be accepted in real life.
The chapters set in the Victorian period, are much better written with far better developed characters, and for a while, that was enough for me to keep reading. However, this is basically a story about family dynamics, including several gay characters randomly shoe-horned in (and fairly stereotypical), and it became clear that there was no real mystery to the story. I started to skim-read chapters, and decided it was pointless continuing.
The chapters set in the Victorian period, are much better written with far better developed characters, and for a while, that was enough for me to keep reading. However, this is basically a story about family dynamics, including several gay characters randomly shoe-horned in (and fairly stereotypical), and it became clear that there was no real mystery to the story. I started to skim-read chapters, and decided it was pointless continuing.