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Black Rabbit Hall
by Eve Chase
DID NOT FINISH
I've been trying to read this for a year. It's time to give up. I just can't. Color me finished at maybe 20% (hard to tell with this audiobook, but...).
I'm so tired of POV swapping novels. Just tell one story. Why do we need to bounce between plots? Is one not exciting enough for you? It doesn't help when both plots are perfectly infuriating.
The worst of the two is the modern one, certainly. She's all peppy and cheerful and quietly morbid. She thinks fights with her fiancee are hot stuff, because they're exciting and add a spark to life (??????????), but heaven help her if she starts to lose that fight because she'll burst into tears, which makes soon-to-be-hubber feel guilty and gives in to her every stupid whim. She's selfish, greedy, snobby, entitled, wants to be in this old, creepy, stupid house a thousand miles from civilization that's run by a perfectly terrifying old woman who basically wants to strangle our protagonist for her money so she can keep the decrepit, decaying, nasty manor in private hands. Listening to Lorna fumble her way through a wedding venue hunt transaction is like pulling teeth. She's so oblivious it hurts to listen to.
The historical stuff is much more enjoyable since there's, you know, actual plot happening with the death of the mother and how they deal with it, but maybe it's the audiobook narrator...I just can't listen to the squeaky children whinge. It's so grating. I can't make myself care.
I've got to quit. Whenever I see that I'm technically still reading this book, I think "Ohhh yeah." And then I try reading (well, listening) to a little more, and then I walk around for the next hour with a bad taste in my mouth. Brain. Whatever. I'm done. Telthor out.
I'm so tired of POV swapping novels. Just tell one story. Why do we need to bounce between plots? Is one not exciting enough for you? It doesn't help when both plots are perfectly infuriating.
The worst of the two is the modern one, certainly. She's all peppy and cheerful and quietly morbid. She thinks fights with her fiancee are hot stuff, because they're exciting and add a spark to life (??????????), but heaven help her if she starts to lose that fight because she'll burst into tears, which makes soon-to-be-hubber feel guilty and gives in to her every stupid whim. She's selfish, greedy, snobby, entitled, wants to be in this old, creepy, stupid house a thousand miles from civilization that's run by a perfectly terrifying old woman who basically wants to strangle our protagonist for her money so she can keep the decrepit, decaying, nasty manor in private hands. Listening to Lorna fumble her way through a wedding venue hunt transaction is like pulling teeth. She's so oblivious it hurts to listen to.
The historical stuff is much more enjoyable since there's, you know, actual plot happening with the death of the mother and how they deal with it, but maybe it's the audiobook narrator...I just can't listen to the squeaky children whinge. It's so grating. I can't make myself care.
I've got to quit. Whenever I see that I'm technically still reading this book, I think "Ohhh yeah." And then I try reading (well, listening) to a little more, and then I walk around for the next hour with a bad taste in my mouth. Brain. Whatever. I'm done. Telthor out.