A review by celltheory
Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens

4.0

3.5. This one took me ages to read and I never really connected with it. The writing was beautiful and I liked being inside of Blanca's head, but there was nothing in the story that really held my attention. I expected more of a gay love story, but it was mostly a ghost vaguely pining for a woman who dated shitty men after shitty men.
SpoilerI know it's based on real life so I'm assuming this was included because of reality, but the whole plot with Chopin and George's daughter was so quick and so weirdly unnecessary.
Most of the book is slow and meandering and then it suddenly picks up and so much happens in quick succession that it lowered the impact of it. I wish that the George and Marie section was given more weight, it really felt to me like all the relationships between women were short cut and not given a lot of attention compared to the ones between women and men. Maybe my expectations were off but this one was kind of a disappointment from how excited and intrigued I was based on the summary and the author.