A review by elke_de_echte
The Muse by Jessie Burton

3.0

The ingredients of a thrilling, gripping, powerful novel are vividly present: art, history, feminism, etc. The Muse reveals some amazing settings – swinging sixties’ London and fascist Franco’s Spain – and tackles the timeless mesmerising subject of inspiration for paintings. All the like, one cannot rid itself from the feeling of artificial twists and turns in the plot, perhaps ruled by Jessie Burton’s need to prove her constructed drama. But that does not stop one from devouring the pages until the end.