Reviews

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Süskind

solesito's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

neveanais's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

2.75

luisa447's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

isaiahh's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

frp123's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

4.0

larasoares187's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

3.25

brananarama's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.5

hazeyjane_2's review against another edition

4.0

Very unusual book. It’s hard enough to write a surrealist book all about smells, let alone do so as engagingly as Suskind has done here.

Having no smell himself and a supernaturally accurate sense of smell, Grenouille is a thoroughly unlikeable and truly unsympathetic character from the start, one of those physically impossible characters like Benjamin Button.

mallow's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.0

berry04's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5