A review by cdcsmith
Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell

2.0

Well this was very disappointing. It felt contrived. This wasn't what I'd call a love story at all. If you're going to use so much fiction when writing a story about people who actually lived, maybe embellish it enough to make it seem like they really were in love. I know they kept saying the loved each other, but that isn't enough to me to believe it. It seemed there were whole parts of the story that were made up, but I don't understand why as it added nothing to the story as far as I could tell. I'm not even sure I would've liked this book if I knew nothing about the people it was written about.