Daughter of Mystery

DNF - PG 29

Why?

I've found a cure for insomnia: fictional characters discussing the religious writings of a long dead author that may or may not be a real life Christian poet from the sixth century. Riveting stuff! I could barely keep my eyes focused on the page! (And you want a sure-fire way to tick me off right now? Let's talk organized religion.)

Besides that - and I might have pressed on in spite of it - the love interests are...difficult. I mean, one of them made a remark to the other that was basically ‘it's a shame you we're born a lady of leisure, instead of sold by your father into servitude, because you're so smart' which was, quite appropriately I thought, responded to with the summation of ‘at least I won't be sold to my husband and forced to obey his whims if all he wants is a baby-maker'. It was a brief but heated argument and then quickly forgiven/forgotten. And I'm left unhappy with the couple and feeling these two ladies have no chemistry.