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product_id: 8279914
title: "Affinity"
brand: "sarah waters"
price: "HK$272"
currency: HKD
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 8
url: https://www.desertcart.hk/products/8279914-affinity
store_origin: HK
region: Hong Kong
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# Affinity

**Brand:** sarah waters
**Price:** HK$272
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Affinity by sarah waters
- **How much does it cost?** HK$272 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Description

Affinity

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## Customer Reviews

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    Incredibly atmospheric but was just missing something to make it great
  

*by L***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 13, 2008*

When I finally learned how to read at the late ago of seven I stopped seeing words as a series of letters and started seeing pictures instead. Not just the picture one word projected or one sentence, but the whole book. I started reading books as though they were movies and so learned to read faster because I was so immersed in the atmosphere of the book.Atmosphere has always been the most important part of the book to me. If I can't really believe my surroundings while I'm reading then the book just isn't worth finishing.From the very first page of this book I heard creepy piano music, saw dim lights that were almost depressing and a lot of the color gray. This may not seem like an atmosphere you'd want to spend 350+ pages in, but it fit the story so well that I was just lost in the book. The author's power of description was perfect and made reading this book a true experience."Affinity" is told in two parts, a narrative in diary form set about a year in the past from the main story from the point of view of Selina Dawes, a young spiritualist in 1870's London arrested for assault and fraud and a diary by Margaret Prior a wealthy spinster who has become a lady visitor at a prison to take her mind off some mystery shrouded event in her life.. The two alternate-Selina with extremely vague and short entries that leave you wondering if she has spiritual powers or is just a clever fraud and Michelle detailing everything that happens in her unhappy home life and her obsessive visits to Milbank prison. The two together bring forth at atmosphere of grayness, misunderstanding and silence, weather imposed by prison guards or polite society. Truly they do so seem to have an affinity to them.But as the book progresses and we learn more of Selina and Margaret strange things start to happen. Items disappear from Margaret's bedroom and Selina says that the sprits took them-and on top of that she knows things Margaret could have never told her. A sort of link develops between the two leading to their final plan and the revelation that changes everything.I liked this book a lot and was very surprised by the turns and twists its story took. That atmosphere as I've said was excellent and really did its job of transporting the reader into the story. But for some reason the story didn't call out to me so while I did like this book I didn't love it.Four stars

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Grim, Dreary, Slow
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 16, 2020*

Sometimes you might hope for an atmospheric novel that will sweep you into its pages. Now I must remind myself, be careful what you wish for. This story is filled with seances, toxic fogs, stuffy drawing rooms, human misery, and hundreds of pages of freezing cold, damp, smelly, prison cells. Is it atmospheric? Yes. Is any of it an atmosphere where you want to linger? No. This book tells an odd story in an odd way. The chapters skip back and forth over a few years in the 1870’s in London. We hear the story of Selina, the clairvoyant, during her heyday running seances mainly at the home of her patroness in London. And then we hear the story of Margaret, a wealthy young woman suffering from a lost forbidden love, grief at her father’s death, and her dread of a hopeless, loveless future in the repressed society. It is hinted that Margaret is being watched carefully after a failed suicide attempt. Besides dosing her with opiates, her treatment is to “do good” by being a lady visitor at the woman’s prison. Not a great idea. Margaret’s story is told in her first-person journal entries. The stories of Margaret and Selina overlap because Selina is in prison after the death of her patroness following a séance gone wrong. The best part of this story is the ending-partly because you are thankful that the book is finally over and partly because it is in the clever ending that a plot is revealed and tied up. The writing is good although the reader remains distant from the characters. The tone and feel are very dark and oppressive. The pacing borders on glacial. The book is 370 pages that reads like 500 pages- not a good thing. It becomes repetitive in establishing the prison conditions and the background material. This was a book group selection for my group. In one sense it was successful, because the selection got me to read some thing that I otherwise would not have chosen. But this book did not touch my heart, enlighten me about human nature, or provide insight into an unknown aspect of the world.

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    Spiritualists and Spectres Galore!
  

*by O***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 14, 2022*

“Why do gentlemen’s voices carry so clearly, when women’s are so easily stifled?” This one has more to love than just whiskers and gowns…Murderers, arsonists, pickpockets, and jewel swindlers coexist amidst smothering silences, deception, and one strongly influential presence. As readers are taken down shadowy corridors in prison wards, wicked deeds are revealed and desperate longings come to light. Concealed lockets, wax moulds, and collected ropes of hair lead to an astonishing conclusion that no one will see coming.Once she’s “got you wrapped around her finger like a borrowed string on a five-cent kite,” subconscious motivations are no longer your own. 💀

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