Stay with Me

I liked the basic concept, but the novel never fully clicked for me. I expected a psychological portrait of a couple that is unable to conceive children in a very patriarchal rules-bound society. But the narrative relied too much on different perspectives, time jumps and twists to really let the characters sink in. Same with the mythological side stories, they functioned as interesting elements, but didn't organically weave into the narrative.

A hard one to rate, because it's a decent book, but it didn't fulfil my expectations, which always makes me judge it harsher. I'd go 2, but the writing is good, so 3.