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A review by treehuggeranonymous
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
2.0
Kind of meh. Like it's okay and the concept seemed interesting, but there are a few things here and there that grate a little. Like some when French resistance fighters use 21st Century American slang. And sometimes it just falls a little flat in the way things are phrased.
The book's hero is no more bland than any other fictional architect and I guess he's supposed to be someone we identify with. He's not especially good or especially evil, just your average guy trying not to starve and making the same sorts of moral justifications the rest of us would in his situation. And I guess I get the point that the author is trying to make, but for the better part of the book he's not your most sympathetic character.
It's not a bad book so much as it's incredibly mediocre.
The book's hero is no more bland than any other fictional architect and I guess he's supposed to be someone we identify with. He's not especially good or especially evil, just your average guy trying not to starve and making the same sorts of moral justifications the rest of us would in his situation. And I guess I get the point that the author is trying to make, but for the better part of the book he's not your most sympathetic character.
It's not a bad book so much as it's incredibly mediocre.