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misslezlee 's review for:
The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters
Two hundred pages seems to be the benchmark for deciding whether or not I’m enjoying a book. By the time I reached that marker I had started watching Sex Education on Netflix. If you haven’t watched it, yet, you really should. It’s better than this book. Apart from the fact that it's set in a Wes Anderson-esque picture perfect small town and not London during WW2 all the same themes are explored. Instead of plodding through trying to remember who is who and what their story is, I could enjoy each character’s story arc. I felt like I was getting to know the Sex Education characters but Helen, Kay, and whatshername never left the pages of the book for me. The descriptions of the air raids were the best, most convincing passages. I think part of the problem is that the story is told backwards with annoying hints dropped here and there as to what everyone’s back story is. I often enjoy novels that play with time but this time it didn’t work for me.