A review by scarletkeiller
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This was nothing to write home about. I think this would have been a very compelling novella - there were parts early on which were excellent, shocking and made me want to keep reading and then suddenly, the pace would drop to a glacial level, with nothing happening for chapters at a time or unrelated, unimportant background lore being established when really, you’d like to be reading something dark and salacious about murder. It is called the story of a MURDERER after all, not the story of the guy that trains a murderer to make perfume. The final act was very good and was worth the struggle it took to get there, but it’s a shame the rest of the book is such a disappointment. 
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