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The Heart's Invisible Furies

John Boyne

Start date: November 15, 2023

Finish date: December 15, 2023

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Nov 01, 2017 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it it was amazing

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I was offered a copy of this from an intern working for the publisher in exchange for an honest review, which I accepted, after feeling slight regret after passing the book up from Book of the Month.

I am a super skeptic of the hype machine. Seriously, the more a book is covered by BookTube and Bookstagram and book podcasts, the less likely I feel compelled to read it. And this book suffered this fate. Not to mention that I had previously read the author, when my book club read The Absolutist, a ...more

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Jun 02, 2020 Heather rated it did not like it

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DNF'd. I just can't with this book. In many ways, I felt like I was reading a poor knockoff of John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, which I loved. This, however, I could not stomach - I DNF'd shortly after the section where two 7-year olds discuss their penises and desires to be a pervert and where Cyril's AWFUL adoptive father ran through his appalling views on relationships. Almost every character in this book, up to my DNF point, has been horrible. I have no desire to get to know Cyril any ...more

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