I thought I would have loved this novel when I was told it was about feminism and empowering women and all such motifs. However, I really haven't been able to get into this novel. For me there are too many random tangents that I get bored reading, until finally I put the book down and do something else. Unlike the other books for this class, I have been reading this for nearly 3 weeks and haven't finished it yet. I think that so far I haven't really gotten to a point of "Oh, I wonder what happens next!?!?" that really keeps me interested in a book. Or in Never Let Me Go, as I wondered just where the story was going. I really couldn't care less about what happens to Fevvers and Walser, so, I have been trying to think about why this is so.
What I have decided so far is that I just don't get why Walser initially cares so much about Fevvers, and I don't see how he falls in love with her at all. I thought he was just interested in her in a journalistic way, and when we discover he is "in love" I was taken a little aback. The rest of the novel I can see how he does love her and so on, but the beginning of the book really didn't get me hooked at all. If I didn't have to read this for a class I would have given up already.
I do think that Carter finds an interesting outlet for her positions on feminism and the like, however, this is definitely not a book I will read again for a long time.
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