A lot of times, when I’m scrolling through the books that NetGalley has chosen to send me, I end up passing by titles that, like this review’s book, have “:A Novel” as part of their title.  Having too numerously been burned by capital N ‘Novels:’ books that tend to take themselves far more seriously than they deserve as they retread familiar ground in the least novel of ways, & spout trope after trope and leaving me growly and unsatisfied, has obviously imparted some bias.  I […]