I usually read the first 50 pages and then stop if a book disappoints
Sadly, I persevered as this had been so highly recommended by a friend. What a waste of time! Poorly defined, unlikeable, flawed characters. Quite sickening perversions and obsessions. Disjointed tooing and froing timelines and nonsensical non conversations. I even found the continual descriptions of the flora and fauna irritating repetitive and sometimes incorrect
Not a comfortable read!!