A review by mmilligan94
The Price of Salt, or Carol by Patricia Highsmith

slow-paced

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

2.0

While I understand and appreciate the significance of the novel I found it tedious reading.  Therese and Carol are both exhausting and their relationship is exhausting.  Highsmith has a few splashes of elegant prose but for the most part it’s a slog.  There is no sweetness of first love, anguish of forbidden love, deepness of long lasting love.  It’s two boring red flag women in their boring red flag relationship.  There was too much angst for adult women that have known each other a few months.