A review by baielleebooks
Mood Indigo by Boris Vian
Did not finish book. Stopped at 73%.
I read this as part of my book club, and it was a mission and a half to get it and came fairly close to our meeting, so that's partially why I DNF'd.
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What I enjoyed about the book was the romanticism in the world-building and the fantasticality (the rooms reshaping from music, magical cocktail machines ). The characters and plot however? No ma'am! I held no personal investment in them (asides from Isis and her Paris Hilton-esque energy throwing elaborate birthday parties for her dogs).
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Colin and Chloe's romance didn't seem to hold much substance, and felt saccharine in parts. Nicholas as well I loathed, his performative third-person dialect as well as the fact that he was such a filthy perv! (his interaction with Alyssum especially). As such, it was not my cup of Darjeeling!
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What I enjoyed about the book was the romanticism in the world-building and the fantasticality (the rooms reshaping from music, magical cocktail machines ). The characters and plot however? No ma'am! I held no personal investment in them (asides from Isis and her Paris Hilton-esque energy throwing elaborate birthday parties for her dogs).
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Colin and Chloe's romance didn't seem to hold much substance, and felt saccharine in parts. Nicholas as well I loathed, his performative third-person dialect as well as the fact that he was such a filthy perv! (his interaction with Alyssum especially). As such, it was not my cup of Darjeeling!