A review by tuesdaydg
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

I’ve struggled over what I want to say about this book. I think I’ve finally come to this: it was hopeful, it was hopeless, it was romantic, it was grotesque, it was beautiful, it was ugly. There are so many things I loved about this book, but there were just as many things I hated. It’s a prolonged portrait of a life spent waiting for true love, yet the novel also steps back to show the ugliness of that pursuit. I think it has a lot to say about the concept of love, but I wish it more clearly articulated those ideas.
READER WARNING: There were many moments where I cringed at the sexist, racist, and classist ideologies of some characters, so be warned that you will read overly descriptive or blatantly stereotypical passages at some points.