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regina_confettibookshelf 's review for:
The Improbability of Love
by Hannah Rothschild
How amazeballs would it be to buy a painting in a secondhand shop for mere pounds and then discover it’s worth millions?!
That’s the premise that drew me to The Improbability of Love, but unfortunately pretty much everything else about the book repelled me. Rather than focusing on the artwork’s intriguing provenance and journey back to market, Hannah Rothschild overstuffed her 2015 debut novel with:
- A bajillion characters that came and went in various ranges of irrelevance.
- An alcoholic mother.
- A painting that talked (which actually worked for me but seems to have bothered some other readers).
- A culinary side plot that included near recipe-level details about a 20 course meal.
- A romance that occasionally led to random phrases about someone wanting to l-word someone’s c-word parts. (Gross!)
- Hitler.
The end result was like looking at a masterpiece mostly covered by mistinted house paint from the clearance aisle at Home Depot. 2.5 stars.
Blog: https://www.confettibookshelf.com/
That’s the premise that drew me to The Improbability of Love, but unfortunately pretty much everything else about the book repelled me. Rather than focusing on the artwork’s intriguing provenance and journey back to market, Hannah Rothschild overstuffed her 2015 debut novel with:
- A bajillion characters that came and went in various ranges of irrelevance.
- An alcoholic mother.
- A painting that talked (which actually worked for me but seems to have bothered some other readers).
- A culinary side plot that included near recipe-level details about a 20 course meal.
- A romance that occasionally led to random phrases about someone wanting to l-word someone’s c-word parts. (Gross!)
- Hitler.
The end result was like looking at a masterpiece mostly covered by mistinted house paint from the clearance aisle at Home Depot. 2.5 stars.
Blog: https://www.confettibookshelf.com/