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The Cloisters
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2.75⭐
Say you're baking bread. You can precisely weigh and measure all the ingredients, proof the dough identically as every other time you've baked it, and use the same tray and oven and baking time. You can keep all the variables under your control the same as always. And yet. Sometimes, you end up with the perfect focaccia. Sometimes, it's a flat, dense, disaster.
The Cloisters sits somewhere in between those extremes.
Many of the right ingredients were there, they just didn't come together right.
The theme of fate was explored heavy-handedly, often to the point of irritation.
The setting was amazing and the atmospheric world Hays brings to life for the reader is darkly fascinating.
I just wish it had lived up to its potential.
Say you're baking bread. You can precisely weigh and measure all the ingredients, proof the dough identically as every other time you've baked it, and use the same tray and oven and baking time. You can keep all the variables under your control the same as always. And yet. Sometimes, you end up with the perfect focaccia. Sometimes, it's a flat, dense, disaster.
The Cloisters sits somewhere in between those extremes.
Many of the right ingredients were there, they just didn't come together right.
The theme of fate was explored heavy-handedly, often to the point of irritation.
The setting was amazing and the atmospheric world Hays brings to life for the reader is darkly fascinating.
I just wish it had lived up to its potential.
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Reading Progress
November 6, 2022
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November 6, 2022
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November 7, 2022
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"Really enjoying this so far! Incredibly atmospheric and I’m loving this claustrophobic world of art history and the occult"
November 8, 2022
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"Somehow this has managed to hold my attention even though very little has happened. Clearly that speaks to story being well paced"
November 9, 2022
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"Pausing my listen of this for a few days because (1) Bloodmarked is finally out and (2) this storyline is hitting just a liiiiiiittle too close to home atm 😅"
November 14, 2022
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November 14, 2022
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November 14, 2022
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November 14, 2022
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Finished Reading
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Nov 15, 2022 06:29PM
I am reading this right now and feel exactly the same. I should love this but it's so flat
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Heavy-handed at times to the point of baaad.
The pacing was off. It was okay at first because it captured how I felt about loving history and wanting to study the parts that others hadn't covered and then realizing that I didn't want that uphill battle. But eventually I just needed it to be over.
