A review by 2treads
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

challenging slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
I am refraining from a star rating because this book upset me so much. Marquez is a talented writer yes, but to pass this novel off as one of love is a stretch. The sickening obsessive hankering being passed off as love and fidelity (to another man's wife), the likening of rape to consensual sexual relations, and just the plethora of women used as a place holder for the main character's true love, the statutory rape, just to satisfy his sexual appetite as well as to ensure he got to enjoy youth and innocence, is rage inducing. 
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