anareadsbooks 's review for:

The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild

5.0

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It is not often that I give a book 5 stars without blinking. I am often caught between "what if the next book is better?" I had no trouble dishing out my 5 stars with this book. I was entranced the entire time I was reading. My only regret was that I didn't read it on my iPad so I could research all the paintings and the books and history mentioned..... I often found myself wondering if these people really existed and who they were and .... Well, you know. It would just take so long to go and look it up. Maybe that's why it took me so long to read this book.

This was my first Hannah Rothschild book but it won't be the last. I am, as soon as I'm done with this review, going to put her other books on hold in my library and I am probably going to buy this one for my own personal library. The book at everything, intrigue, love and romance, murder and in the midst of it all there were lessons in art history and art. The quotes were awesome, and we all know how I'm a sucker for a good quote.

I thought the chapters from the painting's perspective were funny and interesting and always insightful. Almost like an old woman who has been around the block a few times and can tell millions of stories and know what is about to happen before it happens.

I can't say enough good things about this book.