ninetalevixen 's review for:

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

2.0

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Maybe I should stop trying to read books from this era, because the politics of high society bore me terribly, especially when unalleviated by a cast of sympathetic characters. It took me a very long time to even like Lily, and I don't think I empathized with her until the very end — which felt abrupt and disappointing, which I suppose could be seen as a metaphor for life; but it's not one that really appeals to me at all.