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A review by sarahmsklar8
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Unlike Tartt, I'll get right to the point
- Slow.... SLOOOOOW paced
- Character driven
- Beautiful writing
- Unnecessarily racist, that offered no progress to the plot (the time and location could change without a hiccup to the essence of the story)
- if you like endings to wrap up in a neat little bow, this is not for you.
This woman knows how to write. She's great at it. But it feels like she plants a stunning garden path that elegantly leads to an antiquated brick wall.
Getting through this book was a laborious effort at times. I laboriously flipped though the pages, chapter after never ending chapter. (if you know, you know. I wish someone... anyone... gave this woman a thesaurus so she could throw some variations of the word "laborious" in). I felt like I was having to force myself through some of it, despite how I was invested. Only to find that the entire premise of the story I thought I was getting into, was nothing more than background static
- Slow.... SLOOOOOW paced
- Character driven
- Beautiful writing
- Unnecessarily racist, that offered no progress to the plot (the time and location could change without a hiccup to the essence of the story)
- if you like endings to wrap up in a neat little bow, this is not for you.
This woman knows how to write. She's great at it. But it feels like she plants a stunning garden path that elegantly leads to an antiquated brick wall.
Getting through this book was a laborious effort at times. I laboriously flipped though the pages, chapter after never ending chapter. (if you know, you know. I wish someone... anyone... gave this woman a thesaurus so she could throw some variations of the word "laborious" in). I felt like I was having to force myself through some of it, despite how I was invested. Only to find that the entire premise of the story I thought I was getting into, was nothing more than background static