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gellyreads's review
challenging
emotional
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I feel like I don't know enough about Dora or Picasso to truly appreciate this book? But I enjoyed it nonetheless. It was a little slow and a little too character-based for me, but clearly well-written and with beautiful prose.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
soliteyah's review
Whew. I could tell just from the first chapter that this wouldn't be my cup of tea. The writing felt somehow both clunky and pretentious.
diannel_04's review against another edition
I picked this book up because I thought the story of real life Picasso muse, Dora Maar, who shut herself away from the world after a five (or eight) day trip to Venice with two of his admirers sounded interesting. Boy was I wrong. The writing is so overly flowery and descriptive it had me yawning at chapter 2. The skipping back and forth between the modern writer's view and Dora's was not well done. It was sometimes hard to tell who was writing which chapter. I got so bored that by page 75 I knew it was going back to the library, and it did.
sheeprustler's review
challenging
dark
informative
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
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