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Oh my gosh! Thank you. I'm trying to read Lessons in Chemistry now on the recommendation of my friend. She read it in 2 days. I'm three weeks in, and I'm only on page 75. I will read literary fiction, commercial fiction, and non-fiction until 4 in the morning. However, this and other upmarket fiction (as I just learned the title), I just can't seem to delve in to them. I end up feeling disconnected from the main characters, cheated out of gripping plot or a mind altering commentary on the human condition, and frustrated with the general half truths. You say character driven, but I feel like there needs to be more character development, as though all characters are surface characters that aren't complex. I'll finish the book out of loyalty, but I find myself searching overdrive and dreaming of my next book.

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