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blevins 's review for:
Sweet Tooth
by Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan kind of leaves me disappointed after I finish one of his books it seems. This one in particular had me expecting much more than I got in the end with its story about an attractive young female MI5 low-level employee who gets involved in handling a writer that the government funds to write propaganda not intended as blatant propaganda. The era, late '60s, into mid '70s is rife with cold war talk, social upheaval in England/Ireland and all kinds of topics. Add in the writing angle and you'd think I'd be all over SWEET TOOTH. But, I wasn't. As with pretty much everything I've read by McEwan [this is novel #4 I believe] there is a real disconnect between the characters. SWEET TOOTH is McEwan writing in his standard aloofness. He never truly gets me to bang through the world he crafts due to this distance. Plus, the book is rather kind of dull to be bluntly honest. Not sure if I'll even bother with another McEwan book in the future, that's how lukewarm I am about SWEET TOOTH.