A review by mukundshm
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

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

3.0

There’s a reason this book is so highly regarded, and why people consider it Marquez’s greatest creation. 
It’s beautifully written, with stunning descriptions of (specifically) human emotion. I personally really loved the quirky metaphors he used to refer to love. 

Love is a motif in this book, in some sense running almost parallel to the Cholera epidemic? I’d expected that to play a much larger part in the book, but it really didn’t. It was like 4 sentences throughout the book. 

Additionally, I feel like the plot was a little bit obvious. Maybe it’s because it was written in the 80s, but it feels like I’d read the plot in another book already. 
And it was really really slow. Especially the first third of the book was extremely hard to read through, cause the plot just wasn’t moving forward. It was only the last 20% of the book that was gripping. 

To conclude, the book is definitely worth a read, but only if you don’t really have any other books on your TBR already. It’s good - especially the writing - but I didn’t enjoy the pacing or the story itself too much. 
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