hall_cj 's review for:

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

2.0

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Contrived. Unnecessary. Beige. That about sums up this tome. Parts were excellent. Parts were meh. The immense bulk of it was like slogging through a slushy puddle with crocs on while wishing you didn’t wear socks instead of realizing you made a grave error in footwear. Was a single star, but that doubled because Book III was the novel. If the author focused and developed it into the 704 pages instead of making the reader drag through Books I & II, this would be epic. As they are truly unrelated? Do yourself a favor and only read Book III.