A review by kristinj1
Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Daniel Silva

adventurous dark emotional mysterious relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

Looking back at my moods for this book, I put relaxing as one of them because it was a very well executed story. The plot itself was fun and unique, and I'm loving this fine art genre of mysteries. Whoever, the larger direction of the story, a mystery, good guy and a bad guy, plan that comes to fruition, those are all story devices that are well known. They aren't bad, I love them in fact, they are just well known. Overall this is a really great story! Interesting subject matter, interesting character. Of course the main character is a wealthy, wonderful human. At some point it is fun to read books about characters who seem to have everything they want and deserve it all at the same time! I wish I had understood a little more about the tracking of the paintings, that got hard to keep track of. I don't know a lot about painters so I felt like I was trying to learn as I went. Which is fine, I just lost track a little bit at times. I don't think this book was extremely tense, but it definitely kept me interested and I wanted to see how it turned out.
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