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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Really enjoyed this, and not so much of a cliff-hanger as the last one, which is good as I don't know when the next one will be out!
Next up: The Casual Vacancy by J K Rowling. I picked this up in a sale for $1.49 out of curiosity. I'm not sure whether I'll finish it, but as I'm only a chapter or two in I'll give it a bit longer - we're just getting introduced to the characters at the moment.
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I'd give The Casual Vacancy a good try before deciding to discard it. It took a while for me to get going, but the way all the separate strands and threads tied together in the end, and the character .. well, I'm not sure I can really call it character growth, but with so many of them, there was a certain point where I suddenly
understood a previously hated character a bit better, enough to near-sympathise with them, and for me,
those revelations and moments made the book very much worth reading.
But it
is a bit slow going at first, especially with the multiple POV characters and plot threads that don't seem to be connected or related at first.