Lost the thread

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I’m sort of at a loss about this book because i feel like i missed something important at some point along the way. The first half of the book was amazing. I was thoroughly compelled by Mr. Sitwell and the Barclays’ home. But when things switched to being told from Jennie’s POV, i just could not keep up. It felt like the author had a lot of pithy statements to make and just had to invent situations to have those words come up in dialogue. I couldn’t tell if the Harper situation was analogous to something that happened in the real world, but i was very confused about all of that and these Farley characters that came out of nowhere. I also didn’t understand why Jennie spent most of her time acting high and mighty with people, making grand pronouncements about things to anyone and everyone.

A really good concept turned into something too convoluted to be worthwhile in the end.