The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

DNF - PG 48

Why?

Because I do not like the writing style. It's so, so very verbose. Everything is described well, but then we have to get even more in depth. Not only do we have to know what dress Lucy is wearing, but when she last wore it, how it makes her feel, how she got it, ect. (Which, fair, could almost be important to character development, but the way it was done, it's just extra words.)

Lady Moth is described as: ‘She was a complete confection, a richly, roundly luscious, perfectly domestic delicacy.' First of all, that too many words for me for how little it actually tells me of what she looks like. Also, I've dealt with it before when the author has a type that is very much not mine and it always makes things a little awkward. (I could have dealt with that, if not for the writing.)

I finally gave up when there's page upon page upon page of Lucy ruminating over Lady Moth not entering her husband's library, which means she was mistreated by him - I wonder if she likes women, but it's not about that, it's about how badly her husband treated her - I wonder if I could introduce her to science because she should love it as much as I do - but I'm so young, how would I ever help her.

Exhausting.