i_ronnie 's review for:

The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames

3.0

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This started out strongly, but became wearying as the story went on. I largely enjoyed the parts set in Italy, and the characters were vividly drawn. However, Stella’s unceasing bad fortune (no pun intended) makes for heavy reading, and I seriously considered abandoning the book at 75%. 440~ pages of a woman being ignored, overruled, and slowly ground down is too many pages in my opinion.

Also, if I never have to read featuring incestuous paedophilia in another book it will be too soon.