A review by jcpdiesel21
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

2.0

I wanted to like this a lot more than I did. The book jacket promised an intricate story that blended the present day action following Natalia with personal memories of her grandfather and folk tales involving him as a youth, but these three threads never fully came together in a cohesive manner and the book felt disjointed as a result. The pace is frustrating at times, and when read in small progressive chunks, I had to constantly remind myself when in time the events within each chapter were taking place since it jumped around often. I never felt like Natalia was adequately fleshed out as a character, so I had a difficult time understanding and empathizing with her or caring about her relationship with her grandfather. I did enjoy the tale of the deathless man, but ultimately this was an unsatisfying read.