A review by enorr592
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

2.0

A massive disappointment. The author's technically proficient writing on a sentence-to-sentence level can't make up for her poor storytelling skills; multiple plotlines emerge and then are dropped suddenly, and the story itself is unpleasantly choppy and disorganized. The characters are ciphers, and an emotional hollowness pervades the text, keeping the reader at a distance. I would ordinarily applaud a publishing company for taking a chance on a young, unproven writer, but I'm very sorry to say that I ultimately shrugged my shoulders at the close of this perplexing literary hodgepodge.