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britineurope 's review for:
The Art Thief
by Noah Charney
Alrhough there are interesting tidbits of art history and Charney's passion clearly comes across the novel suffers due to the author's lack of refinement in writing technique.
"Like a radioactive centipede" was perhaps the worst line of the novel but there was quite a few to choose from. It also annoyed me (proably far too much) that British characters seem to throw American colloquialism about with abundance and Professor Barrow seems to use a register about 50 years too young for himself. The writing in many parts was simply sloppy - repetition of phrases, cumbersome turn of phrase "iridescent phosphoresence of ..." and a very random Caravaggio sub-plot that seemed to be thrown in simply so the author could talk about the painter, which spoiked the overall great idea.
"Like a radioactive centipede" was perhaps the worst line of the novel but there was quite a few to choose from. It also annoyed me (proably far too much) that British characters seem to throw American colloquialism about with abundance and Professor Barrow seems to use a register about 50 years too young for himself. The writing in many parts was simply sloppy - repetition of phrases, cumbersome turn of phrase "iridescent phosphoresence of ..." and a very random Caravaggio sub-plot that seemed to be thrown in simply so the author could talk about the painter, which spoiked the overall great idea.