A review by stealingyoursunbeams
The Course of Love by Alain de Botton

Did not finish book. Stopped at 6%.

I was put off by the essay-ish explanations in between every section where something was actually happening to the protagonist. It felt so "tell", and not enough "show". I'm being told what to look at and what's happening, instead of me discovering it for myself. 

This approach did not serve the format of fiction well. The frequency of these monologues took me out of the story every time I started getting into it.