I just finished the book and am actually pleased with the book. As I got more towards the middle of the book and everything started making sense it got interesting. Here are some of my thoughts on the book and characters. I have a mixed opinion on Leonora. She was cunning and deceitful, but she also seemed to have become this way, because of how Edward acted by cheating on her. I think she really did have feelings toward Edward in the beginning, but towards the end her marriage became a lost cause. She then decided to embrace her "evilness."
John is an interesting person to chose for the narrator. He told the story as if he wasn't really living the story, but observing through a window. He was so clouded by his love for Edward that he never really saw what kind of person Edward really was. I think he wanted to be Edward or like Edward in a sense. It was like the nerdy guy in school that fantasizes about what like would be like if he was the popular quarterback. Only the quarterback doesn't have the great life that the nerdy guys imagines that he has. Just my thoughts on the characters. Here is a website that has a review of the book.
I like how you posted that it was like the nerdy guy who wanted to live the life of the quaterback. I think everyone, or most people, at some point in their lives want to live in anothers shoes, but most of the time the lives we think are so perfect have just as many flaws in them as our own. I feel like these characters gave up on their own lives and their own love and just started to play the roles and directions that their lives took them. In my opinion I don't know if anyone in this book was every really happy with what they had.
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