A review by clt677
The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye

4.0

I was torn between giving this book a 3 or 4. It really wasn't until the last 150 pages or so that I got really into the book and couldn't put it down. Unfortunately it took the first 270 pages to get there. There is a lot of time spent on Alice's life in New York and it wasn't until I read the author's note at the end that I really understood what she was trying to do. It is an interesting cast of characters, there are just a lot of them. I struggled with remembering them all, and even at the end with just a vague memory of some of them, it didn't impact the story. I ended up giving a 4 because the last 150 pages were just that good. I just wish it hadn't taken so long to get there.