A review by myoceanblu
The Ice-Cream Makers by Ernest van der Kwast

2.0

I kept on losing interest and then pulled back in and then lost it again as I read this book - like I never wanted a book to end so badly. I thought there was gonna be more about the ice cream but I guess the ice cream just happens to be about who they are. The time jumps were definitely confusing, one time the story follows the main character & his brother when they were young and suddenly they were talking about their great-grandparents and how they started selling ice cream, and suddenly it jumped again to the present, etc. etc. Also the character can't seem to talk about women without describing their breasts and hips and legs??? Like my guy let me just get through the book. Also, the plot was a little slow and I felt like there were a lot of unnecessary details (like the boobs??? I think talking about them every 20 pages was a little excessive), and that one chapter he was describing hotel rooms across different countries?????