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Unfortunately, this book did nothing for me. It was a chore to read and took much longer than expected given its size.
I know the book must be considerably better than my experience with it. I've been very distracted lately and have been having trouble focusing properly on any book, but into that distracted period, this book has found itself. Its meandering folkloric tales inside a folkloric tale, all of them similarly inconclusive, left me unsatisfied.
I liked aspects of it - particularly the daughter's observations of her father, the telling of Cave's slow but inevitable conquest over the Eucalypts, and the eventual revelation of the young man's identity - something I had already guessed. But on the whole, it just fell flat for me.
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