A review by beyondrecovery
The Carousel of Desire by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

4.0

Probably more like a 3.5 that I'm rounding up to a 4 on the strength of the writing style, the last section, and the very end. Because of the book's length I chose to read about 3 chapters a day while reading other books so that I wouldn't feel like I was "missing out" on other books while trying to tackle this one. The chapters are well paced but there are essentially 15 or so main characters, each of whom gets 1 chapter per section. As a result, at times it was a struggle to remember who was who and I was mostly going on their circumstances to remember them as opposed to their names. This was fine for the most part but some characters would appear in others' chapters and sometimes I couldn't remember who they were (whoops!) That said, there was a feel-goodness to the book that I enjoyed despite some of its problematic elements.