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laura_trap 's review for:
The Night Manager
by John le Carré
John Le Carre certainly knows how to write and how to spin a very British spy novel. Although the scope, depth, and intricacies of this book are impressive, I was not a fan and this book took a very long time to slog through. Le Carre has a very distinctive diction and storytelling that I have not encountered anywhere else, that created a very cerebral read. I did not see Darker's demise at the end, which was a pleasant twist, but I felt that it took so long to get there that I had given up on the book long before hand. Am I glad Jeds and Jonathan lived 'happily ever after'? Not particularly. The manner in which the main characters thought and treated women was disturbing to me and partly why I had such a distaste for most of the book. Women were secondary, one dimensional characters and even with Jeds coming into herself towards the end, it wasn't for any valiant cause other than for her love of Mr. Pine. It was decent, yes, but I think this as my first foray into Le Carre's novels will also be my last.