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ladybellatrix 's review for:
The Improbability of Love
by Hannah Rothschild
Annie buys a painting from a junk shop with no idea what the value of it. With no real interest in art she is suddenly drawn into the cut throat business of the art world.
Honestly, I didn't think this book would be as intricate as it is. It was pretty telling when the book begins by basically introducing you to a long list of characters that you have to struggle to remember back to later. Even though some of them turn out to be of little meaning to the plot, it still draws back to them.
Then you have the narrative of 'the painting', which I think could have been interesting, but the voice of the painting just didn't seem particularly consistent or give you the depth you really wanted from an external narrative.
It wasn't a 'bad' book, per say, but I did really struggle to get through it because the art and food descriptions pretty much bored me. I assumed there would be some delving into art, but I thought if there would it would be a lot more interesting than what was in this.
Honestly, I didn't think this book would be as intricate as it is. It was pretty telling when the book begins by basically introducing you to a long list of characters that you have to struggle to remember back to later. Even though some of them turn out to be of little meaning to the plot, it still draws back to them.
Then you have the narrative of 'the painting', which I think could have been interesting, but the voice of the painting just didn't seem particularly consistent or give you the depth you really wanted from an external narrative.
It wasn't a 'bad' book, per say, but I did really struggle to get through it because the art and food descriptions pretty much bored me. I assumed there would be some delving into art, but I thought if there would it would be a lot more interesting than what was in this.