rdrzjackie 's review for:

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

2.0

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I found this book to be completely boring. I bought it after learning about Hemingway while visiting Cuba and decided to read it after visiting Paris, hoping to relive some of what I saw there. Hadley was so spineless to me, Hemingway was a jerk, and the dialogue between them was very cliche. The other characters were very much fluff with very little character development. You were always left wanting more from Earnest & Hadley’s interactions with them. This made it very difficult to relate to any of the characters in the book. The book was a very slow read until the last 100 pages or so, when the demise of their marriage begins to play out and more details were shared about Earnest’s affairs. Ultimately, it just wasn’t for me.