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The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
2.0

I could not finish this book - though I did make it about 250 pages in. It's quite a long book, which doesn't usually deter me (I just finished Ron Chernow's Hamilton in one week so...)

But I just couldn't seem to get into this book. The story was painfully slow. It takes a hundred pages to even start to get to the story. And while the story is certainly a little like peeling an onion, revealing layers and layers underneath as you go, I was not invested enough in any of the characters to care what happened to them!

Alexandra seemed to be the least interesting character, yet she took up so much of the first half of the book. Her reminisces about her brother felt forced.

In the end, I had to put it down! I'm still going to give Historian a chance....