A review by jenpen3
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

3.0

I struggled with rating this book, and in the end wonder if the fault isn't my own for trying to read it on my own timetable rather than at the pace the book demanded. I probably liked it better than "3 stars" suggests, but felt too ambivalent in the end to give it more. Interestingly, my inability to connect with most of the narrators was less of a problem than my expectation that the beauty of the novel as a whole would ultimately match that of its many vignettes.