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A review by nicoleabouttown
The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz
3.0
I was initially so excited to get my hands on The Latecomer: A Novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz. The premise seemed right up my alley, but good lord was I so very wrong.
This one is wordy...so very wordy. Unnecessarily so; where 10 words can be used, the author chooses to use 300. Things are overly descriptive and you get so bogged down in minutiae that when it is all said and done, you can't even remember what the hell the author was describing in the first place.
On top of that, the characters are horrible. There is not one likable thing about any of them, and I spent most of the book wanting to slap them. EVERY.LAST.ONE of them. They were like the absolute worst humanity had to offer, and the majority of them were from one family.
I had this one audiobook format, and unfortunately, it just wasn't that good. Don't get me wrong because the narrator's voice was pleasing and overall nice to listen to. The issue is that there were a number of characters in this book, and the narrator did the voices for them all the same. It was virtually impossible to differentiate between characters so quite often I had no idea that the character narrating the chapter had changed, and would have to restart the chapter after realizing it.
All in all, The Latecomer: A Novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz was a good idea, but a real hard slog to get through. I honestly should have listed it as DNF, but I hung on to see if it would get better. It didn't!
This one is wordy...so very wordy. Unnecessarily so; where 10 words can be used, the author chooses to use 300. Things are overly descriptive and you get so bogged down in minutiae that when it is all said and done, you can't even remember what the hell the author was describing in the first place.
On top of that, the characters are horrible. There is not one likable thing about any of them, and I spent most of the book wanting to slap them. EVERY.LAST.ONE of them. They were like the absolute worst humanity had to offer, and the majority of them were from one family.
I had this one audiobook format, and unfortunately, it just wasn't that good. Don't get me wrong because the narrator's voice was pleasing and overall nice to listen to. The issue is that there were a number of characters in this book, and the narrator did the voices for them all the same. It was virtually impossible to differentiate between characters so quite often I had no idea that the character narrating the chapter had changed, and would have to restart the chapter after realizing it.
All in all, The Latecomer: A Novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz was a good idea, but a real hard slog to get through. I honestly should have listed it as DNF, but I hung on to see if it would get better. It didn't!