chanieravs 's review for:

Purity by Jonathan Franzen

4.0

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3.75 stars. This had all the makings of a book I wasn't sure I would like. As I started the book, I didn't really like many of the characters, the story jumped around, (in a more distracting way than Freedom), and the book was often unnecessarily wordy. However, as I kept reading, I got more invested than I thought in the characters (though I'm pretty sure I don't actually like any of them if that makes sense), was engrossed by the plot line, and somehow all the jumping around and verbosity worked. Don't let the length dissuade you from reading it, it's a quicker read than I would have thought.