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Merlin of the Magnolias (Hardcover, 2021, Greenleaf Book Group, Greenleaf Book Group Press) No rating

I just can't with this book. The vocabulary is unnecessarily pretentious. The big words are there for the sake of there being big words to show off that the author can use them. They don't serve the story at all. They just get in the way. The fat shaming is grotesque (there was a whole chapter that went into great depths to talk about the main characters eating habits and food choices, and the author doesn't miss a chance to remind people how obese he wrote the character). There have been lewd scenes and innuendos that seem to exist simply because the author wanted to show that he could put them in the book. It's all just so ... unnecessary.

Setting aside, and won't be coming back to it.