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A review by kookie9200
Alchemy of a Blackbird by Claire McMillan
2.0
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to review this book.
Remedios and Leonora are two good friends living with their lovers in France. When the war picks up, they are separated by circumstance. Happily, they meet again in Mexico.
Honestly, I found this book to be plodding and pretentious. The first part of the chapter is from Remedios' pov and then switches to a random side characters POV for the end of the chapter. This book could have been so much shorter without the unneeded side character points of view. I actually stopped reading at about 85% when BUTTERFLIES were the side character. I just couldn't read more.
The men in this book are also insufferable. They preach lofty ideas but aren't willing to put in any work. They grated my nerves terribly. I found Remedios interesting in the first half of the book when she's very into tarot, but by the time they get to Mexico, she barely mentions it anymore. Instead, all the story is people telling her what an incredible artist she is and that she needs to create her own art and her saying she isn't good enough. It becomes both repetitive and boring.
Like I said, I DNF'd this at about 85%. It sucks to make it that far and stop, but I realized that I just genuinely didn't care how the book ended. I'd rather move on to something more interesting.
Remedios and Leonora are two good friends living with their lovers in France. When the war picks up, they are separated by circumstance. Happily, they meet again in Mexico.
Honestly, I found this book to be plodding and pretentious. The first part of the chapter is from Remedios' pov and then switches to a random side characters POV for the end of the chapter. This book could have been so much shorter without the unneeded side character points of view. I actually stopped reading at about 85% when BUTTERFLIES were the side character. I just couldn't read more.
The men in this book are also insufferable. They preach lofty ideas but aren't willing to put in any work. They grated my nerves terribly. I found Remedios interesting in the first half of the book when she's very into tarot, but by the time they get to Mexico, she barely mentions it anymore. Instead, all the story is people telling her what an incredible artist she is and that she needs to create her own art and her saying she isn't good enough. It becomes both repetitive and boring.
Like I said, I DNF'd this at about 85%. It sucks to make it that far and stop, but I realized that I just genuinely didn't care how the book ended. I'd rather move on to something more interesting.