A review by cwgonzales
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

adventurous dark emotional informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

I’m not sure what qualifies a book to win something like the Pulitzer Prize, but in this case it kind of missed the mark for me. This book feels like it’s trying to be really profound and gritty but I just found the main characters to all be fairly hard to sympathize with or redeemable in any way. The main character almost always felt just as shallow and cynical as the higher class he fell into. The final moralizing vs fuck it all, life is pointless epilogue sealed the fate of this one for me.