A review by twigthing
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

It took me 3 gruelling years to read this book cause I dreaded it everytime I went to pick it up. This was just terrible. Like the writing was great, beautiful a lot of the time. If you cut out like 3/4 of the book this would be at least a 4 stars but all those beautiful moments are just separated by trash. This isn't a romance and it can't seem to make up its mind on whether or not it wants to be. Like Carol can just be so awful to Therese that I don't even want them to be together. She's so hot and cold and seems to just string her along, using her when she feels like it and tossing her to the side when she doesn't. And Therese just lets her. She's a love-sick puppy that will abandon her whole life to follow Carol to the ends of the Earth even with how poorly she's treated.

I think the problem with this is that I was expecting Carol, but this had basically none of the charm that movie had. If I had come in knowing the relationship was like this, I would never have bothered. Maybe it's some peoples thing and more power to you. My issue is that Carol represented it in a whole other way which is what I was expecting and I got far from it.

This is preliminary as I just finished the book. I need to collect my thoughts and research Carol before I make a full review. RTC.