Scan barcode
A review by aimiller
Stealing The Scream by Theodore Carter
3.0
I will say right off the bat that I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program, and I am grateful to the publishers for the opportunity to read this book.
This book was sort of intriguing, and there is a lot of kind of interesting art information in it. The plot itself sort of spirals out a little bit, and I think the main character was someone I wasn't sure what to do with--was I supposed to sympathize with Percival? Hate him? Understand he was complex? (I'm not sure, if the last option was the intention, that it was pulled off very well, but I don't have much patient for men being Like That, so ymmv.) In some ways, the more interesting part of the book happened before The Scream was involved at all, and the parts involving that painting were kind of a jarring shift from the tone of the rest of the book.
But I think if you enjoy crime stories, you may really like this--like I said, there's a lot of fun stuff going on here with art, which you may appreciate even more than I did if you know more things about art than I do. Parts of it were definitely intriguing, I just think it fell flat for me in the latter half.
This book was sort of intriguing, and there is a lot of kind of interesting art information in it. The plot itself sort of spirals out a little bit, and I think the main character was someone I wasn't sure what to do with--was I supposed to sympathize with Percival? Hate him? Understand he was complex? (I'm not sure, if the last option was the intention, that it was pulled off very well, but I don't have much patient for men being Like That, so ymmv.) In some ways, the more interesting part of the book happened before The Scream was involved at all, and the parts involving that painting were kind of a jarring shift from the tone of the rest of the book.
But I think if you enjoy crime stories, you may really like this--like I said, there's a lot of fun stuff going on here with art, which you may appreciate even more than I did if you know more things about art than I do. Parts of it were definitely intriguing, I just think it fell flat for me in the latter half.