A review by beana7227beana
Blue Angel by Francine Prose

4.0

I was truly torn between giving this novel three or four stars. Ultimately I decided to rate it four stars, but in all honesty that's because I simply adored Francine Prose's Goldengrove and will always be a little biased. The plot was simple enough: a college professor falls in love with a student after reading pieces of the novel she's working on. The question of whether or not the professor was falling for this student because of her writing, or because of who she is as a person was wonderfully intermittently woven throughout the piece. But the problem is that not one of the characters is truly likeable, not even the main character's wife. With no true loyalty or sentimentality for the main character or the other characters throughout, it was hard to feel truly moved by the story. And I'm not sure if that's what Prose intended, for us to not feel any special way towards any person, but she certainly achieved that goal. It was a good read for a few rainy days though, and it kept me interested enough to want to keep reading every spare moment I had.