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happy_hiker 's review for:
Flowers of Darkness
by Tatiana de Rosnay
Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an advance copy of this book.
I had written a review (that was obviously amazing and insightful), but I mistakenly did not save it, so here is a condensed version of the review.
Set in the near future in Paris, this book has two threads, both centered around a Clarissa, a sixty-something year old (?) writer. One thread follows Clarissa's break up with her husband, Francois, and involves a slow reveal of the reason for Clarissa's departure from the marriage. The other involves Clarissa's experience in her new home (where she moved after leaving Francois) and the technology in the home that was monitoring most aspects of her life. The second thread was pretty good - Clarissa became more and more paranoid about the technology and its role in her life. The first thread is where the book kind of lost me. As some other reviewers have mentioned, about 75% of the way through the book, things veered off into the unexpected. I don't want to say too much as I don't want to inadvertently give a spoiler, but after that I felt that the second story line was kind of dropped and wasn't really resolved. I thought much of the book was very well written and it was a quick read and left me thinking about the role of technology in our lives. 2.5 stars.
I had written a review (that was obviously amazing and insightful), but I mistakenly did not save it, so here is a condensed version of the review.
Set in the near future in Paris, this book has two threads, both centered around a Clarissa, a sixty-something year old (?) writer. One thread follows Clarissa's break up with her husband, Francois, and involves a slow reveal of the reason for Clarissa's departure from the marriage. The other involves Clarissa's experience in her new home (where she moved after leaving Francois) and the technology in the home that was monitoring most aspects of her life. The second thread was pretty good - Clarissa became more and more paranoid about the technology and its role in her life. The first thread is where the book kind of lost me. As some other reviewers have mentioned, about 75% of the way through the book, things veered off into the unexpected. I don't want to say too much as I don't want to inadvertently give a spoiler, but after that I felt that the second story line was kind of dropped and wasn't really resolved. I thought much of the book was very well written and it was a quick read and left me thinking about the role of technology in our lives. 2.5 stars.