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micaela_s 's review for:
The Mitford Affair
by Marie Benedict
challenging
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
I have really enjoyed several other books by this author but this one was hard to get through. The pacing is slow, I honestly started skimming some chapters because not much was actually happening. There is a lot of rather clunky and unnatural sounding exposition. I don't understand the decision to have one sister's POV chapters in first person and the other sisters' in third.
What makes it the most difficult to stick with is that none of the characters are likeable. Nancy the doormat is the most sympathetic but is still rather boring of a POV character with her continuous inaction and hangdog attitude.
And it is impossible to relate to Diana and Unity. Their infatuation and obsession with their respective men would be cringy with anyone but it's infuriating when one of them is a serial cheating fascist and the other is literally Hitler. Listening to so many of the characters blatantly espouse the virtues of Nazism was nauseating.
I was rather disappointed in this one, would not recommend.
What makes it the most difficult to stick with is that none of the characters are likeable. Nancy the doormat is the most sympathetic but is still rather boring of a POV character with her continuous inaction and hangdog attitude.
And it is impossible to relate to Diana and Unity. Their infatuation and obsession with their respective men would be cringy with anyone but it's infuriating when one of them is a serial cheating fascist and the other is literally Hitler. Listening to so many of the characters blatantly espouse the virtues of Nazism was nauseating.
I was rather disappointed in this one, would not recommend.