A review by maccymacd
Jezebel by Irène Némirovsky

3.0

I found myself in a bit of a rollercoaster ride with this book. It started off so well, dipped down drastically and then ending with an emotional high I hadn't expected. Initially I enjoyed the style of the writing, but after a while it became completely repetitive and I was finding it far too frustrating. The lead character fills pages and pages with descriptions of her beauty and I disliked her narcissistic behaviour immensely. She had no empathy with anyone else whether it was her daughter, her friends or her lovers, and simply droned on and on about how important it was for her to remain beautiful and how no one understood her.
A mixed bag of a book. Although to give the author a fair excuse, it may have been the translation of her writing I disliked.