Those Who Wait

DNFed @ 54%

This book commits three atrocities which I have put into a cute little list:

1.) This book is over 600 hundred pages long. To put it in perspective, Pride and Prejudice is ~350 pages long, depending on the version and copy you're reading. They were able to make a 6+ hour mini series of Pride and Prejudice and covered everything in the book. I got to page 343 of this godforsaken book. All that happened so far in the story could be summed up in a 14-minute Youtube short film.

2.) Why so much headspace? That's what all this book was: characters having a little dialogue to only be interrupted by several paragraphs of thought and feeling often being repetitive information. How many times do I have to know that Charlotte's grandmother was president? Clearly not enough for the writer to put it in countless times. Not only that, but whenever there was a conversation and the author thought it necessary to put in a few pages of thoughts and feelings etc, I could only imagine the other character staring at them like they're on the Truman Show.

3.) Sutton, conceptually. I actually related to her a little bit in the beginning. I kept thinking that she was one of those characters that seemed shy at first, but shows off confidence once the relationship grows. But she wasn't. Even when things were clear as day, she still was blind to it and reacted negatively because the author told her to. She constantly worries about adding stress to Charlotte and then PROCEEDS TO ADD STRESS TO CHARLOTTE. Such an annoying character to read. There wasn't even one hint of development in the 343 pages I read - that goes for both her and Charlotte.

Anyways, sorry for yapping. Thx for reading!