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Pomegranate Soup
by Marsha Mehran
A friend said the author was “trying too hard” and I didn’t know quite what that meant… until I read the book.
I did not like this.
It’s contrived, the characters are stereotypes and cardboard, and the “magical realism” doesn’t fit any of the over-described writing. The fun premise of Like Water for Chocolate meets Waking Ned Devine is utterly obliterated by the poor writing.
When she describes “the surly drinks baron’s” walk up to Estelle’s cottage with phrases like “his hairless thighs” and wiping “his sweaty meat brow” I was done. Mehran clearly attended the adjective abundant school of writing. Also, huge missed opportunity for a quirky, happier ending that involved the “potato head bar owner” getting a disco instead of a coronary.
Lastly, the recipes aren’t good. Many of them don’t work out as if you weren’t really supposed to make them.
I did not like this.
It’s contrived, the characters are stereotypes and cardboard, and the “magical realism” doesn’t fit any of the over-described writing. The fun premise of Like Water for Chocolate meets Waking Ned Devine is utterly obliterated by the poor writing.
When she describes “the surly drinks baron’s” walk up to Estelle’s cottage with phrases like “his hairless thighs” and wiping “his sweaty meat brow” I was done. Mehran clearly attended the adjective abundant school of writing. Also, huge missed opportunity for a quirky, happier ending that involved the “potato head bar owner” getting a disco instead of a coronary.
Lastly, the recipes aren’t good. Many of them don’t work out as if you weren’t really supposed to make them.