A review by ispeakbooknerd
The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier

1.0

This book was just not written in a style that was palatable for me. It is very wordy, which after a certain point, makes it difficult to follow along with what is trying to be conveyed at any given time. There are glimmers of the potential this story has, which kept me attempting to read it for around 150 pages. However, life is too short, and I have way too many books on the backburner to spend more time on something that hasn't managed to grab me even a little bit in the first fourth of its pages. I suspect this is a beautiful novel in its native French; however, I believe something may have been lost in translation. It may just be that the writing style used, even in the native French, wouldn't appeal to me. C'est dommage.