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I came into this book expecting a lot from reviews I'd heard, but despite being a generally not very critical person, I genuinely really disliked it. While it's rhetorically very lovely, the romance doesn't come through to me at all (due to a lot of things; the blandness of Clare's character, the dislikeability of Henry's, the "predetermined" nature of each of their meetings, and the gross pedophilia-ness of it all). Additionally, it just feels very messy, with several inconsistencies that were never cleared up, and even a few typos I picked out, which just really show off the poor editing that went into this. And that doesn't even begin to go into the oversexualization of Clare (which, unfortunately, takes up almost every page off this too-long-for-its-mediocre-plot book) and the racist caricatures of the (very few) characters of color. But I think I've probably gotten my opinion across without picking out the details. Overall, very disappointed.