A review by amyredgreen
The Clasp by Sloane Crosley

3.0

This is a very frustrating read. I feel like I tried so hard to like it more but it just wouldn't cooperate. The writing is very good, good settings, mostly interesting characters, awesome dialogue...I wish this had been 90% dialogue and I wish Sam was the main character. Totally seems like something I would like but where it falters is in the story. Kind of goes in a bunch of different directions then mostly settles on the least compelling character (Victor) and an uninteresting and unbelievable plot about his quest to find a necklace. On some level there is something clever about the parallels to the Guy du Maupassant story, sort of a meta retelling of it, but it is so incredibly heavy handed to the point of just being annoying. This could have been really good but was just ok, I'm definitely interested in what's next for her though.