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meli0706 's review for:
Sweet Tooth
by Ian McEwan
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
In this story by Ian McEwan, a young woman working for MI5 gets entangled with various men, including a novelist who is unknowingly working for a program in the spy organization. So you hear spy and you think action packed, like James Bond, but this is probably much more like the actual work of spies, a lot of sitting around with meetings and talking. Not a lot happens, although the events that do happen become significant to the overall arc of the story. Obviously McEwan is a great writer so the structure is beautiful, it just feels like it drags at times, particularly at the beginning. Once the entire Sweet Tooth operation is introduced, things do move at a better pace. Finally, as in other McEwan books I have read, there is nice little play of structure/plot at the end.