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A review by anjumstar
The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown
2.0
Madeleine is not like other girls. Other girls are happy in their lives of being rich and privileged--not Madeleine! Madeleine thinks having a big condo is a drag and would rather have a small apartment. The feeling of having to have housekeepers is just dreadful!
Seeeeriously, how does this MC keep getting written? Madeleine is rich and hates it because she doesn't fit in with her horrible husband's rich-people atmosphere and her horrible mom is disappointed in her slobbiness and both the horrible husband and horrible mom think that Madeleine is horribly fat. And then we have the dual perspective of the exact same thing happening with Madeleine's grandmother. A different spin on rich girl can't rich girl well enough.
I'm only a quarter of the way through, but so far this is a boring book with dismal characters, blanketed in a thick layer of fatphobia. So much focus on what this poor girl is eating. And everyone around her is just blithely happy, like this girl thinks she's the only person with depth in the whole world. Please. Someone. Anyone. Give me characters (plural) with complexity. Anyone????
Edit: I'm now done with this book and it did not get any better. First of all, the opening of the book with Madeleine and that teacher really gave off some sapphic vibes and I'm disappointed that this book had no sapphic behavior whatsoever. Madeleine's husband continued to not have any depth and, in fact, only became less interesting and more awful in the end. And Madeleine continued to just be a coming-of-age 16yo in a 30yo's body. And look, I love coming-of-age stuff for adults; people never stop growing. But the fact that it's, like, 85% of the way through the book, she's dealing with her husband and she realizes that he has a whole inner life in the same way she does??? Uh, yeahhh??? It was obvious through the whole book that she had no concept of other people being 3d aside from herself and, I mean, all the characters were written totally 2d, so sure, of course she was confused.
Yeah, it just sucked. If I read about another rich person wishing to be poor I'll universe-cross and rob them myself. It only gets 2 stars because I guess the writing style was fine...maybe I should give it 1 star XD
Seeeeriously, how does this MC keep getting written? Madeleine is rich and hates it because she doesn't fit in with her horrible husband's rich-people atmosphere and her horrible mom is disappointed in her slobbiness and both the horrible husband and horrible mom think that Madeleine is horribly fat. And then we have the dual perspective of the exact same thing happening with Madeleine's grandmother. A different spin on rich girl can't rich girl well enough.
I'm only a quarter of the way through, but so far this is a boring book with dismal characters, blanketed in a thick layer of fatphobia. So much focus on what this poor girl is eating. And everyone around her is just blithely happy, like this girl thinks she's the only person with depth in the whole world. Please. Someone. Anyone. Give me characters (plural) with complexity. Anyone????
Edit: I'm now done with this book and it did not get any better. First of all, the opening of the book with Madeleine and that teacher really gave off some sapphic vibes and I'm disappointed that this book had no sapphic behavior whatsoever. Madeleine's husband continued to not have any depth and, in fact, only became less interesting and more awful in the end. And Madeleine continued to just be a coming-of-age 16yo in a 30yo's body. And look, I love coming-of-age stuff for adults; people never stop growing. But the fact that it's, like, 85% of the way through the book, she's dealing with her husband and she realizes that he has a whole inner life in the same way she does??? Uh, yeahhh??? It was obvious through the whole book that she had no concept of other people being 3d aside from herself and, I mean, all the characters were written totally 2d, so sure, of course she was confused.
Yeah, it just sucked. If I read about another rich person wishing to be poor I'll universe-cross and rob them myself. It only gets 2 stars because I guess the writing style was fine...maybe I should give it 1 star XD